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A Valparaiso area man is being held in Porter County Jail on a felony charge of neglect of a dependent after a 13-year-old female relative led police to a bag reportedly containing hypodermic ...
Case containing a Hypodermic syringe, glass and nickel-plated brass, with accessories. 20 mm x 80 mm x 80 mm, 61 g. The case is lined in a distictive purple velvet and contains one vial inscribed with ...
History: Nevada's Virginia City was the hard-living capital of the frontier. Morphine residue could indicate an opium den.
Beneath a small home at 18 North G St., traces of morphine were detected on a 125-year-old glass hypodermic syringe. Researchers believe they found either an opium den or the office of a doctor ...
A Scottish doctor is widely credited with inventing the hypodermic syringe - a crucial tool in the battle against Covid.
In 1853, Fife-born physician Alexander Wood added a plunger and developed the first all-glass syringe that allowed doctors to estimate dosage based on the amount of liquid observed through the glass.