Vaccinator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1868-1880
label: patent date
content: 1866-02-21
name: label: maker
content: Codman & Shurtleff
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: Ref: Amos Whittemore, “Improvement in Vaccinators,” U.S. Patent 52,921 (Feb. 20, 1866).
label: Description
content: Codman & Shurtleff, Illustrated Catalogue of Surgical Instruments (Boston, 1875), p. 84.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Smallpox
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.348
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.348
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: vaccinator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 6.0325 cm x 4.1275 cm