{"id":2693,"date":"2026-06-05T00:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T00:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2026-06-05T00:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T00:51:21","slug":"i-found-this-at-a-flea-market-and-the-seller-had-no-idea-what-it-was-it-intrigued-me-does-anyone-know-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/?p=2693","title":{"rendered":"I found this at a flea market, and the seller had no idea what it was. It intrigued me. Does anyone know what it is?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1885.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1885.jpeg 526w, https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1885-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I had casually picked up was an old medical scarificator, a tool once used for b.l \u03c3odletting. With a hidden spring, those tiny b.l \u03b1des would shoot out for a split second, slicing the skin in neat, controlled c.u \u0167s. Doctors believed that draining \u201cbad\u201d b.l \u03c3od could cure headaches, fevers, infections, even emotional distress. People submitted to it trusting it was science, not knowing how little was truly understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I had casually picked up was an old medical scarificator, a tool once used for b.l \u03c3odletting. With a hidden spring, those tiny b.l \u03b1des would&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerimatonews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}