Objects 12: Blood letting device

A History of Mozart in a Dozen Objects by BBC

Jan 12, 201111:51Society & Culture

In this final episode Cliff Eisen focuses on medicine in the second half of the 18th century, and contemporary views on science and death. We explore today's object: a scarifier,used to bleed Mozart's mother before her d...

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