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Devices used for blood letting. One of these boxes would be held against the patient. When a handle was turned, small blades spun round and cut the surface of the skin. The doctor could then attach one of these glass “cups” to the syringe and then suck blood out from the cuts in the skin. Or … … the doctor might prefer to use one of these “cups”. He would heat it up with a flame burning from the spout of the oil lamp, then apply it to the area of skin that had been cut. As the cup cooled down it would create a vacuum which would suck blood from the patient. Do you think blood letting is a good example of CHANGE or CONTINUITY in the history of medicine?
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This book was written in 1798 by JH Savigny. He was an expert in making instruments for surgeons.In the introduction he explains that he has included carefully drawn images so that other people can copy the designs and make them.We have selected six pages. Click through them and decide what sort of surgery each set of instruments was designed for.
Tourniquets – used for squeezing tightly around an arm or leg to stop blood flowing from a wound or to make an amputation easier.
Devices used for blood letting.
One of these boxes would be held against the patient. When a handle was turned, small blades spun round and cut the surface of the skin.
The doctor could then attach one of these glass “cups” to the syringe and then suck blood out from the cuts in the skin. Or …
… the doctor might prefer to use one of these “cups”. He would heat it up with a flame burning from the spout of the oil lamp, then apply it to the area of skin that had been cut. As the cup cooled down it would create a vacuum which would suck blood from the patient.
Do you think blood letting is a good example of CHANGE or CONTINUITY in the history of medicine?
Forceps used in delivering babies
Instruments used by dentists … before the days of anaesthetics!Which one do you find most alarming?
Instruments used in eye surgery!
Instruments for blowing air into the lungs – or fumes into the intestines.
If someone stopped breathing, air could be blown into the lungs to try to revive the patient.The leather tube from the mouthpiece or bellows would be attached to one of the these curved nozzles. They were made from silver and were specially designed for inserting through the windpipe to the lungs. Air would be blown by using the small wooden mouthpiece or by
the bellows
These smaller nozzles were made for a different purpose: blowing tobacco fumes into a patient’s intestines to help clear them. The nozzle was inserted into the patient’s rectum.
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