When the Needle Syringes Are Not As Sophisticated Now, It's History

When the syringe is not as thin as it is now, it is unimaginable to the patient's pain when it comes to the procedure of injecting or immunizing the children.

Syringes are one of the drug delivery media into the body that is very useful in the present. In the past, the injection caused extreme pain, so patients had to take drugs.

Reporting from Thoughtco, in the days of Greece and Ancient Rome, injection is known as a way to enter drugs in cases of snake bites or exposed to toxic weapons. But the first injection procedure, only recorded in 900 BC, was performed by an Egyptian surgeon named Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili. He uses a thin perforated tool with suction, to take cataracts from the eyes of a patient. At that time, the syringe was used only to pick up an object or a liquid, and not to enter the drug.

Injections and intravenous infusions (introducing drugs into blood vessels) began in 1670, but Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood were the first to develop a syringe, with an improved needle type to penetrate the skin in 1853. This is the first syringe which is used to inject morphine as a painkiller.

Since then the use of syringes began to be developed. One of them as a medium of blood transfusion. However, many technical difficulties faced by people who experiment with blood transfusions.

In 1750 Doctor Alexander Wood, Secretary of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh has experimented with hollow needles to transfer opiates as anesthesia during surgery.

His experiments were then poured into a brief paper at The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Review: "New Methods for Treating Neuralgia with Immediate Application of Opiates to Painful Points."

He points out that the method is not limited to opiates alone, but to other types of drugs. At about the same time, Charles Gabriel Pravaz of Lyon made a similar syringe which soon began to be used in many operations under the name "Pravaz Syringe."

The first vaccine with a syringe

A young British doctor Edward Jenner credited his first vaccination with a syringe. He began studying the link between smallpox and mild disease, chicken pox. By injecting one boy with chicken pox, he finds that the child becomes immune to smallpox. Edward Jenner published his findings in 1898. Within three years, 100,000 people in Britain had been vaccinated against smallpox.

In 1949-1950 Arthur E. Smith received eight U.S. patents. for disposable syringes starting in 1949 and 1950.

Becton, Dickinson and Company invented mass-produced syringes and mass-produced syringes, manufactured in the glass, in 1954. These needles were developed for Dr. Jonas Salk to one million American children with a new polio vaccine.

In early 2000 the discovery of syringes continued to be developed. One of them is the discovery of a hypodermic needle, which has a yarn-like diameter and with a sharp tip makes the injection process almost done without pain.