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Among the many catalogs of museum collections, few describe objects related to the practice of medicine. This catalog is the first of a series on the medical sciences collections in the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT). Bloodletting objects vary from ancient sharp-edged instruments to the spring action and automatic devices of the last few centuries. These instruments were used in a variety of treatments supporting many theories of disease and therefore reflect many varied aspects of the history of medicine. Beginning with an essay sketching the long history of bloodletting, this catalog provides a survey of the various kinds of instruments, both natural and. | Bloodletting Instruments in the National by Audrey Davis and Toby Appel 1 Bloodletting Instruments in the National by Audrey Davis and Toby Appel The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Audrey Davis and Toby Appel This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology Author Audrey Davis Toby Appel Release Date July 7 2010 EBook 33102 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 Bloodletting Instruments in the National by Audrey Davis and Toby Appel START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLOODLETTING INSTRUMENTS 2 Produced by Chris Curnow Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http www.pgdp.net. 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. All the major types of equipment and many variations are represented in this study of the collection in the National Museum of History and Technology. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DATE is handstamped in a limited number of initial copies and is recorded in the Institution s annual report Smithsonian Year. .
