They were kept in custom-made vaccination kits-a leather case containing a tin box, glass slides and a lancet for scratching the skin to introduce the vaccine into the body.
" this man's blood—bring the thermometer! —it's at the boiling point! — his pulse makes these planks beat! —sir! " —taking a lancet from his pocket, and drawing near to Ahab's arm.
We had sent the huntsman in quest of leeches, but the doctor, thinking the case urgent, wished to bleed the count immediately, but had brought no lancet with him.
They were kept in custom-made vaccination kits—a leather case containing a tin box, glass slides and a lancet for scratching the skin to introduce the vaccine into the body.