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Bloodletting was a practice once carried out to treat a wide range of diseases and medical conditions. Baron Charles Louis Heurteloup (1793-1864) invented this device to replicate the blood-sucking action of leeches. As leeches were in great demand, this device may also have been an attempt to provide an alternative to the real thing. Heurteloup’s invention contains a small scarificator to pierce the skin and a suction pump to draw out the blood. The pump could hold a fluid ounce of blood, which is equivalent to 28.4 ml. maker: Unknown maker Place made: Europe Wellcome Images |
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Short title | L0057780 Mechanical leech, Europe, 1850-1900 |
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Author | Wellcome Library, London |
Headline | L0057780 Mechanical leech, Europe, 1850-1900 |
Copyright holder | Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Image title | L0057780 Mechanical leech, Europe, 1850-1900
Credit: Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Bloodletting was a practice once carried out to treat a wide range of diseases and medical conditions. Baron Charles Louis Heurteloup (1793-1864) invented this device to replicate the blood-sucking action of leeches. As leeches were in great demand, this device may also have been an attempt to provide an alternative to the real thing. Heurteloup’s invention contains a small scarificator to pierce the skin and a suction pump to draw out the blood. The pump could hold a fluid ounce of blood, which is equivalent to 28.4 ml. maker: Unknown maker Place made: Europe made: 1850-1900 Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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