Scarificator
name: label: maker
content: Leypoldt, Frederick C.
notes: label: Description
content: Brass 12-blade scarificator designed and made by Frederick Leypoldt, a resident of Philadelphia who advertised as a “Manufacturer of Scarificators and Spring Lancets.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Frederick Leypoldt, “Scarificator,” U.S. Patent 5,111 (May 15, 1847).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ada M. Doyle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-03182
label: catalog number
content: M-03182
label: accession number
content: 118000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scarificator
label: Object Name
content: bloodletting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.8 cm x 4.7 cm x 4.5 cm; 2 5/16 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in x 2 in; 5.715 cm x 4.445 cm x 5.08 cm