Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology

by Audrey B. Davis; Toby A. Appel

[124] Bayfield, op. cit. [note [87]], page 116.

[125] Knox, op. cit. [note [2]], pages 53-64.

[126] Ibid., page 68.

[127] Hero of Alexandria, The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, translated by Bennet Woodcroft (London, 1851).

[128] Gurlt, op. cit. [note [1]], volume 2, page 565 and plate X.

[129] Brambilla, op. cit. [note [106]], page 42, mentioned but did not picture a cup with air pump. One of the earliest illustrations of a cup with pump is found in Savigny, op. cit. [note [106]], plate 7.

[130] Mapleson, op. cit. [note [90]], page 63.

[131] Knox, op. cit. [note [2]], page 32.

[132] John Read, A Description of Read’s Patent Syringe Pump (London, no date). See also John Read, An Appeal to the Medical Profession on the Utility of the Improved Patent Syringe, 2nd edition (London, ca. 1825).

[133] Weiss, op. cit. [note [118]], page 87; Chas. Truax, Greene & Co., Price List of Physicians’ Supplies, 6th edition (Chicago, 1893), pages 989-1010.