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Title: Lebenswecker
Creator: Baunscheidt, Carl
Date Created and/or Issued: approximately 1850
Publication Information: Digital resource published by the Regents of the University of California
Contributing Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections
Collection: Health Sciences Artifact Collection
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: Lebenswecker (pictured with cap on and off); created by German inventor Carl Baunscheidt in the mid-19th century; translated as the “Life-Awakener” or the “Resuscitator"; the Lebenswecker was designed to quickly puncture the skin, creating “artificial pores” from which sickness would drain; part of health philosophy known as Baunscheidtism.
Type: physical object
Identifier: artifact436_caponandoff
Source: Artifact Collection, item 436

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