The Arcade Gallery - Show Case I

Blood letting

  1. Flint for cutting, bloodletting etc. c. 6th millennium B.C
  2. Roman arrow head and scalpel blade, all used for bloodletting
  3. Roman double ended lancet c. 100 BC, bronze
  4. Bloodletting fleam c.1750
  5. Bloodletting fleam c.1850
  6. Lancet c.1700 Jade & silver handle, steel blade
  7. Large lancet c.1800 ivory handle, steel blade
  8. Lancets & lancet case c.1700 case covered with shagreen, lancets folding steel blade with tortoise-shell handles
  9. Single blade, spring-loaded scarificator, c. 1780

10.Two lancets & lancet case c.1850 lancets folding steel blade with tortoise-shell handles

  1. Eight blades, spring-loaded round scarificator, c. 1850
  2. Two bleeding bowls c. 1700-1800

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