Dr. Ralph and Mrs. Olga Crawford Canadian Dental Collection
Category
Dental
Classification
Dental
Accession Number
010020287 a-b
Description
Silver metal dental aspirator; central hollow cylindrical barrel with two oval openings at sides (a); red rubber insert inside bottom of aspirator; top of barrel has two finger grips coming out at sides; cylindrical plunger with flat tip; thumb grip at top, paralled to finger grips, used to push pl…
Silver metal dental aspirator; central hollow cylindrical barrel with two oval openings at sides (a); red rubber insert inside bottom of aspirator; top of barrel has two finger grips coming out at sides; cylindrical plunger with flat tip; thumb grip at top, paralled to finger grips, used to push plunger into barrel; cylindrical tip (b) screws onto tip of aspirator
Number Of Parts
2
Part Names
a - aspirator - Size: Length 11.4 cm x Width 5.2 cm x Depth 1.1 cm
b - tip - Size: Length 1.3 cm x Diam. 0.6 cm
Provenance
Transfer from the Dental Canada Fund; previously housed in the Dentistry Canada Museum (Ottawa)
Metal slightly tarnished, particularly inside aspirator
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
"A Catalogue of Operation Tables, Sterilizers, Hospital Furniture, Surgical Instruments, Appliances, Ligatures & Sutures", Allen & Hanbury Ltd., 1957, p. 530 (similar to #44760); "Novocol Pharmaceutical of Canada" website
Research Facts
Dr Ralph and Mrs Olga Crawford donated their extensive Canadian dental collection to the DCF to create the museum in 1997; further donations were received while Dr Crawford was Curator Emeritus at the Dental Canada Museum until its closure in 2008; the Novocol company was founded in 1911 in the United States by Dr. Mendal Nevin; a factory was opened in Canada in 1926 and all operations moved there in 1983; the company remains leaders in producing anaesthetics and is based in Cambridge, Ontario