Baunscheidt Instrument for Counterirritation
notes: label: Description
content: The Lebenswecker was introduced in 1847 by Carl Baunscheidt (1809-1873), a German inventor who noticed that inflammation in one spot relieves inflammation in another. The form was also called a resuscitator or vitalizer.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles W. Baunscheidt, Baunscheidtism, or A New Method of Cure (Cleveland, 1865).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.287885.08
label: catalog number
content: 287885.08
label: accession number
content: 287885
objectType: label: Object Name
content: counter irritation device
label: Object Name
content: bloodletting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/8 in x 1 in; x 25.7175 cm x 2.54 cm