Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology

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

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_Dictionnaire encyclopedique des sciences medicales_, series 1, volume 8 (Paris, 1868), pages 632-633; L. GRESELY, "Dissertation sur les sangsues, le nouveau scarificateur, et sur leur emploi en medecine" (Paris: Faculty of Medicine, 1820), dissertation no. 202.

[188] ROBLEY DUNGLISON, _Medical Lexicon: A New Dictionary of Medical Science_, 3rd edition (Philadelphia, 1842). The bdellometer was listed in later editions of this dictionary throughout the nineteenth century.

[189] DAMOISEAU, _La terabdelle ou machine pneumatique operant a volonte la saignee locale et la revulsion aux principales regions du corps humains_ (Paris, 1862), 60 pages. See also GAUJOT and SPILLMAN, op. cit. [note 49], pages 194-195.

[190] L. WECKER, "De la sangsue artificielle (modele du baron Heurteloup), et de son emploi dans le traitment des maladies des yeux." _Bulletin general de therapeutique medicale et chirurgicale_, volume 62 (1862), pages 107-116. For price information, see CASWELL, HAZARD & CO. (W. F. Ford), _Illustrated Catalogue of Surgical Instruments and Appliances_ (New York, 1874), page 18. An example of Heurteloup's leech as well as a larger, modified Heurteloup's leech can be found in the collection of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

[191] SMITH, op. cit. [note 185], page 406; TIEMANN, op. cit. [note 144], page 116; Patent specifications, U.S. patent 100210. An example of this artificial leech can be found in the collection of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

[192] TIEMANN, op. cit. [note 144], page 506.

[193] WILLIAM REESE, "Uterine Leech and Aspirator," _Medical Record_,