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 NationalMuseum of History and Technology. Smithsonian Studies in History andTechnology, number 41, 103 pages, 124 figures, 1979.—Supported by avariety of instruments, bloodletting became a recommended practice inantiquity and remained an accepted treatment for millenia. Punctuated bycontroversies over the amount of blood to take, the time to abstract it,and the areas from which to remove it, bloodletters employed a wide rangeof instruments. All the major types of equipment and many variations arerepresented in this study of the collection in the National Museum ofHistory and Technology.
Official publication date is handstamped in a limited number of initialcopies and is recorded in the Institution’s annual report, SmithsonianYear. Cover design: “Phlebotomy, 1520” (from Seitz, 1520, as illustratedin Hermann Peter, Der Arzt und die Heilkunst, Leipzig, 1900; photocourtesy of NLM).
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Davis, Audrey B
Bloodletting instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology.
(Smithsonian studies in history and technology; no. 41)
Bibliography: p.
Supt. of Docs, no.: SI 1.28:41
1. Bloodletting—Instruments—Catalogs. 2. Bloodletting—History. 3. National Museum of History
and Technology. I. Appel, Toby, 1945—joint author. II. Title. III. Series: Smithsonian
Institution. Smithsonian studies in history and technology; no. 41 [DNLM: 1. Bloodletting—History.
2. Bloodletting—Instrumentation—Catalogs. 3. Bloodletting—Exhibitions—Catalogs.
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CONTENTS
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| Page | |
| Preface | v |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Sources | 2 |
| Bleeding: The History | 3 |
| How Much Blood to Take | 5 |
| When to Bleed | 7 |
| Barber-Surgeons | 8 |
| Bloodletting and the Scientific Revolution | 9 |