The Falling Drop Densiometer was designed “for determining Blood Proteins and Specific Gravity of Body Fluids.” An inscription on this example reads “LAMOTTE CHEMICAL PRODUCTS CO / BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.”
Wooden box of ivory points used for smallpox vaccination. These resemble the points used by Edward Jenner (1749-1823), the British physician who, in the 1790s, successfully tested the idea that an attack of cowpox, a milder form of smallpox, gave immunity to smallpox.