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High blood pressure (recognizable by the warm, moist skin and the reddened face), stroke, gout - there was a whole series z.T. very useful indications for bloodletting.
The bloodletting was also used to remove alleged toxins from the body, such as the plague. In the monasteries he served to weaken the body so far that unchaste instincts passed.
"Council of Chelchitas, 816.- The monks are no longer to be burned on the appointed days. (The monks and nuns were bled every month, on a certain day, for the mortification of the flesh.) This day was in the Calendar referred to as "this aeger" or "this minutionis" "(D'Wäschfra of 5.10.1878).
During the Renaissance numerous factors had to be considered. It all depends on the position of the stars and zodiac signs. As dangerous was the moonrise in the corresponding zodiac. But also age, gender, climate, season, wind direction and the stage of the disease played a role. For each disease, for each organ was a special vein available. From ancient times the dogma came from doing the slaughter in a place as far away as possible from the diseased organ and on the other side of the body. Then in the sixteenth century there was the famous blood-feud dispute: the French doctor Pierre BRISSOT (1478-1522) demanded the opposite and wanted to put the bloodletting as close as possible to the disease.
Presented is a lancet with original box, manufactured by the company Reay & Robinson from Liverpool, 17 Churchstreet. This operation existed from 1837-1851.
- 1829 Thomas Reay
- 1837 Reay & Robinson
- 1851 partnership ended, then Thos. Reay
Mother-of-pearl handle (French nacre). The manufacturers were not concerned with producing a product from biomaterial. It was a matter of fabricating a fashion object to serve vanity-in our case, the vanity of doctors and surgeons. Some objects were so overloaded with embellishments and encrustations that it is questionable whether they could even come to practical use. Some surgical caskets, expensive and pretty to look at, was more of an exhibit than a surgical kit. Pure pleasure!
A not insignificant disadvantage has mother of pearl: it is hydrophilic, attracts water - so in the long run to rust on the joint!
Origin: Snowdonia, UK, 2013. Northern Wales, near Liverpool, the city of the Beatles ...
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