Ivory Points
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870 - 1905
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Smallpox
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content: Antibody Initiative: New York City Public Health Collections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0184.073
label: accession number
content: 2017.0184
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0184.073
objectType: label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: vaccinator, points
label: Object Name
content: public health
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, wooden box: 2 3/8 in x 7 3/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 18.7325 cm x 13.6525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, small vaccination point: 1 1/2 in x 1/4 in; x 3.81 cm x .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, larger stick: 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 1/4 in; .3175 cm x 7.9375 cm x .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, smallpox vaccine kit box: 1/2 in x 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 1.27 cm x 1.27 cm x 8.255 cm