Object Details
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- Description
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- ca 1870 - 1905
- ID Number
- 2017.0184.073
- accession number
- 2017.0184
- catalog number
- 2017.0184.073
- Object Name
- biological
- vaccinator, points
- public health
- Physical Description
- ivory (overall material)
- wood (container material)
- Measurements
- 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
- overall, small vaccination point: 1 1/2 in x 1/4 in; x 3.81 cm x .635 cm
- overall, larger stick: 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 1/4 in; .3175 cm x 7.9375 cm x .635 cm
- 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
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Health & Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Smallpox
- Antibody Initiative: New York City Public Health Collections
- Exhibition
- First Do No Harm
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_722405
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-8b9b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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