Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and TechnologyDavis, Audrey B.
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Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
Davis, Audrey B.
National Museum of History and Technology; Phlebotomy -- History; Phlebotomy -- Instruments -- Catalogs
[97] PIERRE DIONIS, _Cours d'operations de chirurgie demonstrees au Jardin
Royal_ (Paris, 1708), page 584.
[98] RENE JACQUES CROISSANTE DE GARENGEOT, _Nouveau Traite des Instrumens
de Chirurgie les plus utiles_ (The Hague, 1725), page 342.
[99] DIONIS, op. cit. [note 97], page 585.
[100] MAPLESON, op. cit. [note 90], pages 27-28. See also GEORGE FREDERICK
KNOX, op. cit. [note 2], page 29.
[101] MAPLESON, op. cit. [note 90]; BAYFIELD, op. cit. [note 87]; KNOX,
op. cit. [note 2]; and MONSON HILLS, "A Short Treatise on the Operation of
Cupping," _Boston Medical and Surgical Journal_, volume 9 (1834), pages
261-273.
[102] KNOX, op. cit. [note 2], page vi.
[103] BAYFIELD, op. cit. [note 87], page 125.
[104] DIONIS, op. cit. [note 97], page 587 and figure 57 on page 583.
[105] KNOX, op. cit. [note 2], page 33.
[106] JOHN H. SAVIGNY, _A Collection of Engravings representing the Most
Modern and Approved Instruments Used in the Practice of Surgery_ (London,
1798), plate 7. For the earlier grease lamp, see J. A. BRAMBILLA,
_Instrumentarium Chirurgicum Viennense oder Wiennerliche Chirurgische
Instrumenten Sammlung_ (Vienna, 1780), plate 2.
[107] BAYFIELD, op. cit. [note 87], page 123; KNOX, op. cit. [note 2],
page 33; HILLS, op. cit. [note 101], page 263.
[108] See DIONIS, op. cit. [note 97], page 587 and figure 58 on page 583;
and LAURENCE HEISTER, op. cit. [note 47], page 329 and plate 12. The
parallel incisions were described in antiquity by Oribasius (ca. A.D.
360), the most important medical author after Galen and the friend of the
emperor Julian. See GURLT, op. cit. [note 1], volume 3, page 563.
[109] AMBROISE PARE, _The Collected Works of Ambroise Pare_, translated by
Thomas Johnson (London, 1634). Reprint edition (Pound Ridge, New York:
Milford House, 1968), page 446. The drawing first appeared in Pare's
treatise "Methode de traiter des playes de la teste" in 1561.
[110] PAULUS AEGINETA, _Medicinae Totius enchiridion_ (Basileae, 1541),
page 460.
[111] ALBERT WILHELM HERMANN SEERIG, _Armamentarium chirurgicum oder
moeglichst vollstaendige Sammlung von Abbildungen und Beschreibung
Chirurgischer Instrument alterer und neuerer Zeit_ (Breslau, 1838), page
598.
[112] JACQUES DELECHEMPS, _Chirurgie Francoise Recueillie_ (Lyon, 1564,
page 174); HELLKIAH CROOKE. _Micrographia: A Description of the Body of
Men ... with an Explanation of the Fashion and Use of Three & Fifty
Instruments of Chirurgy_ (London, 1631).
[113] GARENGEOT, op. cit. [note 98], pages 347, 351.
[114] HEISTER (1719), op. cit. [note 18], page 329. Lorenz Heister
_... Chirurgie ..._ (Nuremberg, 1719) includes the same picture of the
scarificator as the 1759 English translation.
[115] HEISTER (1759), op. cit. [note 47], page 330.
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