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Bloodletting
URL: http://www2.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/biomedicallibrary/12193.cfm

Description:
"A brief selection of material, in word and image, on bloodletting." Includes excerpts from "On the Proper Administration of Blood-Letting, for the Prevention and Cure of Disease" (1840), by Henry Clutterbuck; and images from medical texts representing anatomical figures with points identified for bloodletting, and instruments used in the process. From the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Publisher:
University of California, Los Angeles

Extra Keywords
leeches

Dublin Core Material Type:
Collection, Text, Image

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Medicine -- History
Phlebotomy

LII Database Information:
Record 1900 created by Tom McGibney on 12/08/2002
Last modification on 12/01/2008
Published: 12/08/2002  
California Digital Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/1900