Figures 26-124
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Figure 26.—Reproduction of a Greek vase showing a 5th century B.C. medical “clinic.” Original is in the Louvre. Patient is about to undergo venesection in the arm. Bronze bleeding bowl catches the blood. (NMHT 233055 [M-9618]; SI photo 73-4216.)
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Figure 27.—Bloodletting man from a New York almanac, 1710. (From Daniel Leeds, The American Almanack for the Year of Christian Account, 1710. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.)