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.
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