[114] Heister (1719), op. cit. [note [18]], page 329. Lorenz Heister ... Chirurgie ... (Nuremberg, 1719) includes the same picture of the scarificator as the 1759 English translation.
[115] Heister (1759), op. cit. [note [47]], page 330.
[116] See Brambilla, op. cit. [note [106]], plate 2; Denis Diderot, Dictionnaire risonné des sciences, arts et métiers. Recueil des planches (Lausanne and Berne, 1780), volume 2, plate 23; and Benjamin Bell, A System of Surgery, 5th edition (Edinburgh, 1791), volume 1, plate 5.
[117] James Latta, A Practical System of Surgery (Edinburgh, 1795), volume 1, plate I; Benjamin Bell, A System of Surgery, 7th edition (Edinburgh, 1801), volume 3, plate 7.
[118] John Weiss, An Account of Inventions and Improvements in Surgical Instruments Made by John Weiss, 62, Strand, 2nd edition (London, 1831), pages 12-13. A Mr. Fuller introduced a similar improvement, which Weiss claimed Fuller had pirated from him. The only difference between Weiss’s Improved Scarificator and Fuller’s Improved Scarificator was that the blades in Weiss’s were arch shaped and those of Fuller’s crescent shaped. The cupper, Knox, preferred the crescent blades because they gave a sharper cut. In any case, most nineteenth-century scarificators were made with crescent-shaped blades. On Fuller’s scarificator, see Bayfield, op. cit. [note [87]], pages 99-100; and, Seerig, op. cit. [note [111]], pages 604-605 and plate 56.
[119] Extract du Catalogue de la maison Charrière (Paris, 1843), page 30; Knox, op. cit. [note [2]], pages 39, 40.
[120] This statement is based on the perusal of a wide variety of nineteenth-century trade catalogs. See “List of Trade Catalogs Consulted.”
[121] Knox, op. cit. [note [2]], page xii.
[122] Ibid., pages 14-15.