The history of the syringe and needles, Syringe is a medical instrument used to inject medicines in the patient’s body, to extract blood for testing. However, most people are also called syringes. The syringe is an instrument and the injection is a medical procedure in which healthcare professional or doctor using a needle injects medicines or other liquid substances in the body. In India, different types of syringes are available which have different advantages. But have anyone ever thought that when these modern syringes were not available, how was the work done?
Actually, the history of the syringe is quite old and over time, it has changed and today the worldwide business of billions of rupees is done only by syringe. So let us tell you about the history of syringe as well as how much demand for syringe is around the world.
What is a syringe?
The syringe is like a cylindrical tube that contains a piston (piston) that is used to pull the medicine or liquid in and push out. There is a removable needle (nidil) at the lower end of the syringe. It connects it to the syringe and the medicine or other fluids are injected into the body. The modern syringe used in today’s time is also called hypodermic syringe.
You can divide the syringe into 5 parts. The first barrel which is filled with medicine. It is transparent so that its content can be visible. The amount of medicine is written on this part of the syringe, only by seeing the amount of medical professional medicine can be estimated.
The second plunger (piston) that pushes the liquid out or pulls inside. After this, the medicine goes inside the body only after piercing the needle (nidil). The part that is to connect Nidil and Syringe is called hub. Apart from this, the floral is the part that supports the finger for the plunger. It occurs at the upper end of the syringe.
The glass syringe used to come before the use of plastic syringe, but in today’s time plastic syringe is a cheap, disposable option. Typically, these syringes come with either a completely plastic plunger tip or rubber plunger tip. Plastic syringes are some flexible under plunger and barrel pressure, which can cause up to 5% inaccuracy. These syringes come under size 1 ml, 2ml, 3ml, 5ml, 10ml, 20ml etc.
From animal bladder to plastic, this remains syringe history
Even though the modern syringe has been invented in 1853, but the syringe has been used in some form or the other since the 5th century BC. The first syringe was used by the Hippocrates (Greek Physician), called the father of therapy. However, it was not technically a syringe.
Indian Journal of Physiology and Formacology According to, Hippocrates used an animal bladder, ivory or syringe made of bamboo during enema (bowl cleanser). Then in the seventeenth century, flexible bulbs and bottles made of rubber for enema took place of animal bladder.
National library of science The Egyptian ophthalmologist Ammar IBN Ali Al-MaWSILI used to say, then in the 11th century, Egyptian ophthalmologist used to use a hypodermic syringe-like equipment to remove cataracts. It is said that it was a significant discovery in cataract surgery during that period, which accelerated the treatment of cataract.
Although no experiments were made of the syringe of medicine by putting a needle in the vein till the beginning of the 17th century, but in the middle of the 17th century (1656), Britain’s architect and physicist Sir Christopher Wren (Christopher Wren) using an animal bladder using an animal bladder connected to a hollow goose. The medicine of vomiting of the centenary) was given.
Then about 150 years later, the world’s first vaccine, the British Physician Edward Jenner, came out and made a smallpox vaccine. Finally, in 1796, he made an incision in the body of an 8 -year -old boy and inject the medicine. However, it was not technically injected.
After this, by the middle of the 19th century, the Physician and other medical experts started focusing on different techniques to deliver the medicine to the body that in 1844 the Irish Surgeon Francis Rynd (Francis Rynd) invented the world’s first hollow needle (Nidil). He used a canula and trocator and the medicine was put in the body.
Bbc According to, only 10 years later, the modern variant of the hypodermic needle came to light and in 1853, Scott Physician Alexander Wood made the first glass syringe by adding a plunger. Doctors could estimate the amount of medicine from this glass syringe.
For the first time, he gave this injection to an 80 -year -old woman who was suffering from neuralgia. He was given 20 drops of mortar medicine at a painful place on the shoulder to relieve pain. At first the woman fell asleep but later her condition improved.
When Wood made a glass syringe, at the same time French surgeon Charles Pravaz also made an equivalent made of silver which had a plunger (the drug -pushing part) and the medicine was sent to the body by rotating a screw.
Wood tested his new syringe to inject a patient (morphine) to a patient, while Pravaz tested his syringe on the sheep, so the effectiveness of the eye syringe was considered more accurate. At the same time, Pravaj had told anything about his syringe, he had died before that but at the same time, Wood had told a lot about his syringe.
Right now the hypodermic needles present in the market are almost similar to the design of Wood’s syringe. Just now instead of glass, disposable plastic syringe comes in the market. It took a lot of hard work to clean the glass syringe and there was more risk of breaking or cracking while dispensing them.
Now in today’s time, plastic syringe is present in the market which comes with quite safety. Many of these syringes are also such that there is no feeling of pain and the medicine is put inside the body. This Medical It is considered one of the most important discovery of the world.
How big is the Indian and Global Market of Syringe?
According to Grand View Research report, Talking about India’s syringe market, close in 2018 1918 It was worth crores of rupees and by 2023 it had increased to about 3198 crore rupees. It is estimated that this market is almost by 2030 9163 Can reach crores of rupees. From 2023 to 2030, a 16 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is expected in India’s disposable syringe market.
According to Grand View Research, The global syringe market was about Rs 55,230 crore in 2023 and this market is estimated to reach about 1 lakh 28 thousand 794 crore by 2030. It has been reported that from 2024 to 2030, this market will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 12.8. Safety syringe is the highest demand in this market of India. It consists of a mechanism that hides the needle safely after using, so that professionals or other people do not get hurt by needle.
The demand for disposable syringe has also increased to give medicines. Companies have increased their production capacity to meet the growing needs. For example, according to WHO, in July 2021, about 90 million people in India were imposed by using disposable syringes, which proved to be an important reason for increase in demand for syringe and that is why the disposable syringe market in India got more boost.
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