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Medicina vindicata, or, Reflections on bleeding, vomiting, and purging : in the beginning of fevers, small-pox, pleurisies, and other acute diseases / By a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Dublin.
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin.Date: 1728
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Venesection : its abuse formerly, its neglect at the present day / by Henry I. Bowditch.
Bowditch, Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892.Date: 1872
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Leonardi Botalli astensis, philosophiæ & medicinæ doctoris Christianissimi regis Caroli IX. Serenissima reginæ, & invictissimi ducis brabantiæ, andium &c. Comitis Flandriæ, &c. Consiliarii & medici : opera omnia medica & chirurgica. Hac postrema editione à mendis repurgata, methodicè disposita, paragraphis distincta, notis marginalibus, & authorum testimoniis aucta, hinc inde annotationibus illustrata, prodeunt è musaeo Joannis van Horne, med. doct. anat. & chir. prof. ordinarii. in Acad. Lugduno-Batava.
Botallo, Leonardo, 1530-approximately 1587.Date: 1660
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M0003731: Cherokee scarification instrument
Date: 28 November 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/30/99
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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On the effects of venesection in renewing and increasing the heart's action under certain circumstances / by John Reid.
Reid, John, 1809-1849.Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]
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Traité pratique des émissions sanguines / par A.J.L. Magistel.
Magistel, Antoine Jean Louis, 1803-1845.Date: 1838
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An entire new treatise on leeches, wherein the nature, properties, and use of that most singular and valuable reptile, is most clearly set forth. / by George Horn, Apothecary, &c.
Horn, George.Date: 1798
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Three diagrams illustrating how to bleed an arm. Stipple engraving.
Reference: 23006i
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History and method of cure of the various species of epilepsy : being the second part of the second volume of a treatise on nervous diseases / by John Cooke.
Cooke, John, 1756-1838.Date: 1823
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Observations on the results of an advanced diagnosis and pathology applied to the management of internal inflammations, compared with the effects of a former antiphlogistic treatment, and especially of bloodletting / by J. Hughes Bennett.
Bennett, John Hughes, 1812-1875.Date: [1857?]
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M0006349: Five bloodletting appliances
Date: June 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/53/30
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Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
Slovacius, Petrus.Date: [1580]
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Medical inquiries and observations : containing an account of the bilious and remitting and intermitting yellow fever,as it appeared in Philadelphia in the year 1794 ; together with an inquiry into the proximate cause of fever ; and a defence of blood-letting as a remedy for certain diseases / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania ; volume IV.
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.Date: 1796
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A surgeon bleeding a woman's arm, she is being comforted by her husband (?). Etching.
Reference: 23017i
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A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm, and a physician examining a urine-flask. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, 18th (?) century.
Reference: 45002i
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Etudes cliniques sur les émissions sanguines artificielles / Augustin Pierre Isidore de Polinière.
Polinière, Augustin Pierre Isidore de, 1790-1856.Date: 1827
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Observations on the epidemic fever, of the year 1741 : To which are added several cases, as examples of the benefit arising from bleeding, and purging, in the cure of this fever, in its several stages / By Daniel Cox.
Cox, Daniel, -1759.Date: 1742
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Venesection for acute and chronic conditions: polycythaemia, distention of right heart, high blood pressure etc
Date: 1927-1942Reference: PP/FPW/B.358
Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
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Observations on blood-letting founded upon researches on the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood / by Marshall Hall.
Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.Date: 1836
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John Bull as a patient, in disarray, reclines on a sofa and receives medical treatment from politicians. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1 December 1813Reference: 38418i
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The Lord Bacons relation to the sweating-sickness examined, in a reply to George Thomson, pretender to physick and chymistry : together with a defence of phlebotomy in general, and also particularly in the plague, small-pox, scurvey, and pleurisie, in opposition to the same author, and the author of Medela medicinæ, Doctor Whitaker, and Doctor Sydenham : also, a relation concerning the strange symptomes happening upon the bite of an adder, and, a reply by way of preface to the calumnies of Eccebolius Glanvile / by Henry Stubbe.
Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676Date: 1671
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A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
Naiveu, Matthijs, 1647-1721.Date: [1700?]Reference: 44718i
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A surgeon about to bleed a woman's foot, he is observed by an older surgeon and aided by an assistant, another woman comforts the patient. Engraving, 1586.
Date: [1586]Reference: 22977i
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I. A clinical history of the acute rheumatism, or rheumatick fever. With a correspondence; containing the testimony of eight eminent physicians in the metropolis, to explain the beneficial effects of the Peruvian bark, cinchona, in the acute rheumatism : II. A clinical history of the nodosity of the joints ... / by John Haygarth.
Haygarth, John, 1740-1827.Date: 1813
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A case of uremia in an alcoholic patient with visceral complications successfully treated by venesection, diaphoresis, and nitroglycerin : Philadelphia Hospital service of S. Solis-Cohen, M.D / reported by W.E. Bruner.
Bruner, W. E.Date: [1893?]

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Medicina vindicata, or, Reflections on bleeding, vomiting, and purging : in the beginning of fevers, small-pox, pleurisies, and other acute diseases / By a Fellow of the College of Physicians in Dublin.

Venesection : its abuse formerly, its neglect at the present day / by Henry I. Bowditch.

M0003731: Cherokee scarification instrument

On the effects of venesection in renewing and increasing the heart's action under certain circumstances / by John Reid.

Traité pratique des émissions sanguines / par A.J.L. Magistel.

An entire new treatise on leeches, wherein the nature, properties, and use of that most singular and valuable reptile, is most clearly set forth. / by George Horn, Apothecary, &c.

Three diagrams illustrating how to bleed an arm. Stipple engraving.

History and method of cure of the various species of epilepsy : being the second part of the second volume of a treatise on nervous diseases / by John Cooke.

Observations on the results of an advanced diagnosis and pathology applied to the management of internal inflammations, compared with the effects of a former antiphlogistic treatment, and especially of bloodletting / by J. Hughes Bennett.

M0006349: Five bloodletting appliances

Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.

A surgeon bleeding a woman's arm, she is being comforted by her husband (?). Etching.

A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm, and a physician examining a urine-flask. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, 18th (?) century.

Etudes cliniques sur les émissions sanguines artificielles / Augustin Pierre Isidore de Polinière.

Observations on the epidemic fever, of the year 1741 : To which are added several cases, as examples of the benefit arising from bleeding, and purging, in the cure of this fever, in its several stages / By Daniel Cox.

Venesection for acute and chronic conditions: polycythaemia, distention of right heart, high blood pressure etc

Observations on blood-letting founded upon researches on the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood / by Marshall Hall.

John Bull as a patient, in disarray, reclines on a sofa and receives medical treatment from politicians. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.

A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.

A surgeon about to bleed a woman's foot, he is observed by an older surgeon and aided by an assistant, another woman comforts the patient. Engraving, 1586.

A case of uremia in an alcoholic patient with visceral complications successfully treated by venesection, diaphoresis, and nitroglycerin : Philadelphia Hospital service of S. Solis-Cohen, M.D / reported by W.E. Bruner.