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Various vaccination objects from the Medicine Collections

From the online exhibition 'Whatever Happened to Polio?'

Description:

Steel vaccinator with “WHITTEMORE’S / PATENT / FEB. 20, 1866” and “MADE BY / CODMAN & SHURTLEFF / BOSTON” inscriptions. Amos Whittemore was an inventive machinist in Cambridge, Mass.

Ref: Amos Whittemore, “Improvement in Vaccinators,” U.S. Patent 52,921 (Feb. 20, 1866).

Codman & Shurtleff, Illustrated Catalogue of Surgical Instruments (Boston, 1875), p. 84.

Patent Date: 1866-02-21

Maker: Codman & Shurtleff

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Health & Medicine, The Antibody Initiative, Antibody Initiative: Smallpox

Exhibition:

Exhibition Location:

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2012.0165.348Catalog Number: 2012.0165.348Accession Number: 2012.0165

Object Name: biologicalvaccinator

Physical Description: metal (overall material)Measurements: overall: 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 6.0325 cm x 4.1275 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-e2ac-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1446664

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