Category: History - Other

Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology

account of ancient bloodletting, see RUDOLPH SIEGEL, "Galen's Concept of Bloodletting in Relation to His Ideas on Pulmonary and Peripheral Blood Flow and Blood Formation" (chapter 19 in volume 1 of _Science, Medicine and Society in the Renaissance_ edited by Allen Debus, New Y...

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13. volume 11 (1876), page 596.

[194] OTTO RAUBENHEIMER, "Leeches--How to Dispense Them," _Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association_, volume 12 (1923), page 339. THORNDIKE, op. cit. [note 3], page 47...

7. volume 35 (1961), page 2.

[76] MARTIN KAUFMANN, _Homeopathy in America_ (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971), pages 1-14. Other references on the decline of bloodletting include: LEON S. BRYAN, JR., "B...

11. volume 2 (1828), pages 9-26. For a discussion of the debate over

[166] Such a breast pump was illustrated by HEISTER (1719), op. cit. [note 17], plate 14. All glass breast pumps were probably more typical of the eighteenth than the nineteenth...

10. volume 1, page 451.

[145] For one listing of the disadvantages of the common scarificator, see BLATIN, "Scarificator nouveau," _Bulletin de l'Academie Royale de Medecine_, volume 11 (1845-1846), pa...

1. volume 197, number 12 (September 1927), pages 437-477. For a detailed

account of ancient bloodletting, see RUDOLPH SIEGEL, "Galen's Concept of Bloodletting in Relation to His Ideas on Pulmonary and Peripheral Blood Flow and Blood Formation" (chapt...

3. volume II (1940), page 137.

[43] JOHN STEWART MILNE, _Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times_ (New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1970), reprint of 1907 edition, pages 32-35. A bronze knife of this type...

8. volume 1, plate I; BENJAMIN BELL, _A System of Surgery_, 7th edition

[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 intro...

2. volume 2 (July 1974), pages 16-18; JOHN K. CRELLIN, "Medical Ceramics," in

[36] WILLIAM HARVEY, _Works_, edited by Robert Willis (London: Sydenham Society, 1847), page 129. Harvey reaffirmed later: "I imagine that I shall perform a task not less new an...

12. volume 57 (Paris, 1821), pages 174-178; PAULET, "Bdellometre,

_Dictionnaire encyclopedique des sciences medicales_, series 1, volume 8 (Paris, 1868), pages 632-633; L. GRESELY, "Dissertation sur les sangsues, le nouveau scarificateur, et s...

9. volume 13 (1820), pages 286-289. J. WELSH, "Description of a Substitute

for Leeches," _The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal_, volume 11 (1815), pages 193-194; P. MOLONEY, "A New Cupping Instrument," _Australia Medical Journal_, new series, vol...

5. volume 2 (Philadelphia, 1813), pages 279-281.

4. volume 35 (1939), page 67.

6. volume 7 (1935), page 181.