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
[187] SARLANDIERE, "Ventouse," _Dictionnaire des sciences medicales_,
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 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_,
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 477, notes that in 1927, leeches still
could be had in Boston for 75c apiece. In Cleveland they were still
obtainable in the 1950s.
[195] _Dictionnaire usuel de chirurgie et de medicine veterinaire_, 2
volumes (Paris, 1835-36), articles "Ventouses" and "Sangsues."
[196] Ibid., article "Saignee."
[197] _Encyclopedie methodique: Medecine_, volume 9 (Paris, 1816), page
478.
[198] _Dictionnaire usuel_, op. cit. [note 195], volume 2, page 605.
[199] WEISS, op. cit. [note 118], page 100, plate 27.
[200] Patent specifications, U.S. patent 6240.
[201] Patent specifications, U.S. patent 236084.
LIST OF TRADE CATALOGS CONSULTED
Aloe, A. S. Company. _Illustrated and Priced Catalogue of Surgical
Instruments, Physicians' Supplies and Hospital Furnishings._ 6th edition.
St. Louis, 1891.
----. _Catalogue of Superior Surgical Instruments and Physicians' and
Surgeons' Supplies._ 6th Edition. St. Louis, 1895.
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