M0019259: Scarificator used for bloodletting, Dublin, early 19th century

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Scarification for bloodletting

Photograph of a scarificator created by Fannin, Dublin. It was presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1954 (accession number R65/1954)

November 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R65/1954

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.