Surgery

A barber's razor

The razor moves on the border between shaving and surgery. In the vaccination kit of Dr. med. DELVAUX has included several razors that soften the skin before it has been cut ...

1550 BC Razor arrived with movable handle, the handle was probably also used as a curler.

Quite naturally, the skin was incised by razor in the 17th century. Here is an excerpt from a report from 1665:
"Then he picked up a sharp razor and sat down at the head of the stretcher close to the wounded man, slicing the scalp on his forehead from one ear to the other, then lifting the skin near his right ear little from, so that there the brain bowl in their blinding whiteness became visible "

(www.museumonline.at/1999/schools/classic/istanbul/meister.htm).

W. D. Bräutigam (published in the second edition in Weimar in 1850) wrote a "Practical Hand and Hülfsbüchlein the lower surgery for apprentices and assistants", a manual, which had been edited by the medical practitioner and surgeon Franz Wilhelm Otto Händel. Of the 231 pages of the book, no less than 31 pages deal with the use and proper handling, in particular the sharpening (removal) of razors - evidence of the importance of the razor in the daily practice of surgeons in the mid-19th century ,

The presented knife comes from the fabrication of "Coutellier" François COGNIOUL in Luxembourg (stamp on the blade). In 1849 he was naturalized (Memorial n ° 64 of 30.6.1849). In the summer of 1910, his widow took over the shop:
«1027 ° - Veuve François Cognioul, Luxembourg. - Coutellerie. - Exploitante: Suzanne Théato, veuve Francois Cognioul, Luxembourg - Du 22 juillet 1910 »Memorial n ° 49 of 8.9.1910, commercial authorizations).