Word: hypospray
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...paralytic poliomyelitis this year, but Rhode Island has a polio epidemic: So cases with five deaths since June 8. The Navy captain was Iowa-born Edward Abel Anderson, 47, who wears the Medical Corps' insigne above the four stripes on his shoulder boards. His "gun" was a Hypospray injector made by Detroit's R. P. Scherer Corp., modified to meet Dr. Anderson's suggestions. His ammunition was Salk vaccine...
...Hypospray, first offered to doctors in 1947, has found few takers outside the Navy. It is costly: $2,000 a copy originally, now down to $1,200. Its greatest advantage is speed. It can be loaded with enough vaccine for 55 shots, can give 1,200 an hour, does not need to be sterilized for every shot, nor have a needle changed. For the patient, it is preferable because the injection feels like a slight, instantaneous pinprick...
...painless substitute for the hypodermic needle was reported last week. The revolutionary gadget, called the "hypospray," is a kind of air gun that shoots an injection under the skin in a spray so fine that the patient usually does not feel...
...hypospray blasts a drug through the pores, using air pressure of 25 to 125 pounds per square inch. The gun opening of the instrument is one-fiftieth of the diameter of the finest hypodermic needle. Each injection is loaded in a cartridge. Doctors who have tested it think it will be just the thing for insulin, penicillin, vaccines and a variety of other injections...
Georgetown University's Dr. Edward B. Tuohy, who exhibited the hypospray at a Washington meeting last fortnight, foresaw a crop of new whodunit plots: "Why, with this gun someone could readily substitute poison for insulin, shoot his victim by pressing the hypospray gun against him in a crowd, and . . . the victim wouldn't know he'd been...
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