Kit comprises a thin metal case with rounded corners and flip top cover. Within it is housed an ornately decorated glass and metal hypodermic syringe, needle and five slender amber coloured glass corked vials. The vials contain hypodermic tablets of morphine sulphate, apomorphine hydrochloride, morphine atropine and strychnine sulphate.The metal syringe is inscribed with patent and manufacturing information: 'PARKE DAVIS & CO. / PAT AUG 25 1885'. The needle is inscribed with 'P. D. & CO.' and the base with 'PARKE, DAVIS & Co. / DETROIT & NEW YORK'.anaesthesia, drugs, portable, hypodermic, morphine sulphate, apomorphine hydrochloride, morphine atropine, strychnine sulphate, hypodermic tablets, park davis & co., needle, syringe

Most nurses had their own syringe and needle kits before the advent of disposable syringes. They were used by Alfred Hospital visiting trained nurses to administer medication in the patient's home. The analgesic tablets in the glass vials were dissolved in sterile water prior to administration.This item belonged to Louisa Mann, 6th Matron of the Alfred 1912-1928.Silver coloured metal flip up case containing: 1. a glass and metal syringe with metal cap 2. a small glass vial containing 6 hypodermic needles 3. 6 vials with cork stoppers containing analgesic tablets 4. 2 perished rubber washers used in the syringe 5. 1 wire stylet to clean needles 6. Screw on needle hubOn the base of the kit engraved - Parke, Davis & Co. Detroit & New-York Markings on the vials: No 2 Apomorphine Hydrochlorate 1-10 gr - Parke, Davis & Co. Detroit & New York No 3 Atropine Sulphate 1-50 gr - Parke, Davis & Co. Detroit & New York No 5 Cocaine Hydrochlorate 1-4 gr - Parke, Davis & Co. Detroit & New York No 13 Morphine sulphate 1-4 gr - Parke, Davis & Co. Detroit & New York No 16 Morphine sulphate 1-4 gr & Atropine sulphate 1-150 gr - Parke, Davis & Co. Detroit & New York No 72 Strychnine Nitrate 1-40 gr - Parke, Davis & Co. Detroit & New York Glass vial with needles (Patient July 7, '96): 1st line - Aseptic Hypodermic Needles 1/2 Doz. 2nd line - Schimmel's Patent Best Seamless Steel Tubing 3rd line - CAUTION - Do not return a needle once used to the vial. 4th line - Remove needles by a slight tap on vial with a pencil. 5th line - PARKE, DAVIS & CO. GENERAL AGENTS 6th line - DETROIT MICH U.S.A. Syringe inscription - on barrel, Parke Davis &Co PAT. AUG 25 1885: on plunger, measurement markings injection kit