Vaccination Shield
date: label: date made
content: ca 1902 - 1915
label: patent filed
content: 1901-11-02
label: patent date
content: 1902-06-24
name: label: maker
content: H. K. Mulford Company
notes: label: Description
content: Vaccination shields were designed to protect the patient’s skin from damage or infection following the procedure. The inscription on this example refers to Harry K. Mulford, a Philadelphia pharmacist who, in 1894, opened a laboratory to produce diphtheria antitoxin.
label: Description
content: Ref: Harry K. Mulford, “Vaccination Shield,” U.S. Patent 703,290 (June 24, 1902).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
title: label: Title
content: Mulford's Aseptic Shield - Prevents Sore Arms
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Cleveland Medical Library Association, Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0337.01
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0337.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0337
label: collector/donor number
content: 3460
label: patent number
content: 703,290
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vaccination shield
label: Object Name
content: biological
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: celluloid (product material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, shield: 3/4 in x 3 in x 2 in; 1.905 cm x 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm