Podcasts Culture A History of Mozart in a Dozen Objects Objects 12: Blood letting device

Objects 12: Blood letting device

Published: Jan. 12, 2011, 7 p.m.

In this final episode Cliff Eisen focuses on medicine in the second half of the 18th century, and contemporary views on science and death. We explore today's object: a scarifier,used to bleed Mozart's mother before her death in Paris, and hear a moving account of Mozart's death in 1791 as recalled by his sister-in-law.