Friday Word: Scarificator

[calzephyr]

Scarificator - noun.

If you're a fan of history or old-timey literature, you probably ran across the treatment of bloodletting. However, did you ever think about how it was done? I didn't until I saw this Reddit post.

Enter this fiendish-looking, spring-loaded contraption, the scarificator. Inside the brass box are gears used to snap the blades out. As one might guess, it was popular in the 19th century.

By David R. Ingham at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

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[jesse_the_k]

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