GR translation: syringe and spike

[Michael Bailey]

I think I read all the posts on this; apologies if somebody already
mentioned this, but -

The syringe is the tube thingie - a big one can be used without a needle to
wash out one’s earwax, or we used to have a little one to refill ink
cartridges for a fountain pen.

But it can also be fitted with a needle (or in rough parlance, a spike) to
give injections



https://www.amazon.com/Shintop-Syringe-Needles-Experiments-Industrial/dp/B074M4RB86


Spiking away into the night does sound like fun, though - a foolish
pleasure; the allusion isn’t that far fetched, but in context he’s taking
the kit & caboodle (or in this case, the syringe and needle) away from the
doctorly convo in the little office off the ward and into the night, in
order to sedate a “Fox” ie a presumably howling & raving patient.