Thursday, May 14, 2020
QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER April/May/June/2020 Issue Vol. I No.2
This Quarter highlights the 100th Anniversary of the glass Wood Syringe
1920 - 100th Anniversary - 2020
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of his precise ground glass
syringe in 2020. The barrel and plunger were identified by
a four-digit number, as each were finely made to fit perfectly.
Alexander Wood (1817 –1884), was a Scottish physician. He invented the first true hypodermic syringe. He served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Note the number on both the barrel and the plunger.
This syringe was separated and sterilize by means of
cold sterilization or by boiling water, 100 years ago.
· 1946: Chance Brothers in Smethwick, West Midlands, England
produced the first all-glass syringe with interchangeable barrel
and plunger, thereby allowing mass-sterilization of components
without the need for matching them.
· 1949: Australian inventor Charles Rothauser created the world's
first plastic, disposable hypodermic syringe at his Adelaide factory.
· 1951: Rothauser produced the first injection-moulded syringes made
of polypropylene, a plastic that can be heat-sterilized.
Millions were made for Australian and export markets.
· 1956: New Zealand pharmacist and inventor Colin Murdoch was
granted New Zealand and Australian patents for a disposable
plastic syringe.
· 1989: Manuel Jalón Corominas invented the auto-disposable
needle-syringe. The head with the needle is detached from the
syringe after use. This invention greatly reduced the spread of
AIDS and other drug-use related diseases.
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