Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology

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Title: Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
Author: Audrey Davis
Toby Appel
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SMITHSONIAN STUDIES IN HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY/NUMBER 41

BLOODLETTING INSTRUMENTS
in the
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY


Audrey Davis and Toby Appel


Smithsonian Institution Press
City of Washington
1979

ABSTRACT
Davis, Audrey, and Toby Appel. Bloodletting Instruments in the National
Museum of History and Technology. Smithsonian Studies in History
and Technology, number 41, 103 pages, 124 figures, 1979.—
Supported by a variety of instruments, bloodletting became a
recommended practice in antiquity and remained an accepted treatment
for millenia. Punctuated by controversies over the amount of blood to
take, the time to abstract it, and the areas from which to remove it,
bloodletters employed a wide range of instruments. ...