Saliva Pump
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content: Asahel M. Shurtleff was a Boston mechanic who, together with Benjamin Codman, a Harvard-educated physician, ran the instrument firm of Codman & Shurtleff. Thie is the patent model for his saliva pump.
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content: Ref: A. M. Shurtleff, “Improvement in Saliva Pumps,” U.S. Patent 76,257 (March 31, 1868).
label: Description
content: Ad for Codman & Shurtleff’s Saliva Pump in The Dental Advertiser 2 (1870): 87.
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04206
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content: M-04206
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content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 73,974
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content: saliva pump; patent model