Counter Irritation Device
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This long ebony and ivory instrument is known as The Lebenswecker or "Awakener of Life". The cap to the instrument protects about thirty steel needles which punctured the skin causing inflammation or irritation. Afterwards oil would be applied to the wounds. Counter irritation is an old technique but was popularized in the nineteenth century by the Prussian Carl Baunscheidt and his Lebenswecker.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
label: Related Publication
content: Davis, Audrey B., and Toby Appel. Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0664.0990
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 1078
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0990
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lebenswecker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ebony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.3 cm x 3.5 cm; 10 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in