Spring Lancet
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Bloodletting is one of medicines oldest therapies. Hundreds of devices have been devised for removing blood from the body beginning with lancets chiseled from flint. This device is a spring lancet with a steel blade, handle or spring, and a round trigger button. As the handle is pulled back the iron cock locks the blade in place. When the button is depressed the blade is released. The spring lancet is housed in a wooden case covered in leather and lined with chamois.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
label: Subject
content: Bloodletting
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
label: Related Publication
content: Davis, Audrey B., and Toby Appel. Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0664.0989
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 1077
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0989.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0989.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spring lancet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: chamois (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.1 cm x 7.1 cm x 3.7 cm; 13/16 in x 2 13/16 in x 1 7/16 in