j2^ DESCRIPTION OF A SCARIFICATOR* 



IV. 



Defcription of a Scarificator on a neie Principle, By Mr^ 

 Thomas Shute, Surgeon, 



SIR, 



New scariflca. J[f the annexed description of a Scarificator, which I have 

 *"' found upon trial to be extremely efficient, should appear 



■worthy of insertion in your Journal, I have taken the liberty 

 of transmitting it to you for that purpose. 

 I am, Sir, 



Your most obedient humble Servant, 

 Park Street, Bristol, THOMAS SHUTE, Surgeon^ 



<22dJuli/, 1810. 



- . ^^ The advantages resulting from a local evacuation of 

 ientlv advan- blood by cupping, in a variety of complaints, being fully 

 tageous. established, it would, I presume, be a waste of time elabor- 



ately to descant on the merits of such depletion, as forming 

 The operation ^ ^'g^^ ^^^^ important remedy in the curative art. It must 

 sometimes however be admitted, that the operative means, which have 

 ful'*aii^d in-"^' ^^^^ hitherto employed for this purpose, are not only too 

 •ffectual, often tedious and painful in their applications, but very 

 frequently extremely ineffectual in the event. Such being 

 the acknowledged fact, and regarding it as very improba-^ 

 ble, that the difficulty of obtairiing blood could depend on a 

 want of manual dexterity in the operator, when the scarifi- 

 cator usually employed had passed through the hands of so 

 many able practitioners, it seemed natural to conclude, that 

 probably from the want of success ought rather to be attributed to some 

 instrument, fault in the construction of the instrument itself. Impress- 

 ed v.'ith these ideas, and having taken up an opinion, that 

 the failure of the scarificator now in use might be attributed 

 to the manner in which the incisions are made; and sup- 

 posing, that simple punctures would more certainly enter 

 Alteration of the depths intended ; I flatter myself, that, by altering thf 

 IIS principle, p.-jfi^-jpij. qjj which the instrument used to act, I have pro- 

 duced one, which will effect ail the purposes required with 

 more facility to the operator, and less pain to the patient. 



Without 



