History of Medicine Moment -- Episode 1: "Scarificators"

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Uploaded by on Apr 13, 2011

(Video features Christopher M. Hoolihan, Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarian, Edward G. Miner Library.)

Bloodletting was the most common medical practice performed by doctors in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Several examples of scarificators are shown, including one that belonged to Dr. William Smith Ely, a surgeon during the Civil War.

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