Scarificator
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Frederick Klee, “Scarificator,” U.S. Patent 55,775 (June 19, 1866). Klee, who lived in Williamsburg, N.Y., termed this device an “Improvement in Instruments for Irritating the Skin.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04305
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: M-04305
label: patent number
content: 55,775
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Counter Irritant
label: Object Name
content: instrument, skin irritating, patent model
label: Other Terms
content: Counter Irritant; Blooodletting Instruments
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: hard rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 9.2 cm x 2.8 cm; 3 5/8 in x 1 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 9.525 cm x 3.175 cm