Description:
A sixteen lancet scarificator - brass with steel lancets, levers, and springs. Marked KOLB "When, from the severity of a local fixed pain, it is wished to evacuate blood from the small vessels of the part affected, a scarificator is used. ...The whole number of lancets are, by means of a strong spring, pushed suddenly in. ...A cupping glass is used to induce a free discharge." -Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1797

Tags:
medicine

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