Surgery


Cupping glass (12) by HEURTELOUP

Heurteloup

Artificial leech, 1840

 

 

Artificial leech by Heurteloup, "which consists of two independent instruments, namely a punch, which is rotated by the rapid unwinding of a wound around the stem of the same string at high speed and thereby produces a ring-shaped, severely bleeding skin wound, and from a A glass cylinder in which a good-closing stamp can be moved up and down by means of an iron rod If the skin has been wounded with a puncher, the glass cylinder is set up and made relatively deflated by pulling up the stamper, whereby the blood from the entire wound surface Often the artificial leech is used by ophthalmologists because of its convenient handling and the more accurate assessment of the amount of blood to be withdrawn "(Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1888).

 

Origin: Bavaria, Berchtesgadener Land / Germany.

 

Manufacturer: Fa. Hermann Katsch / Munich, founded in 1865.

 

Distribution: Instrument factory of J. Thamm / Charitéstr. 4, Berlin resp. Karlstr.14