Health & Medicine

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This digital collection features selected medications and documents, manuals, and photographs relating to biochemical research and technology, with a focus on 20th-century instrumentation in medical laboratories. Various models of glucose, enzyme, and amino acid analyzers are a few of the instruments documented in these materials.

Start Over Exhibition Making Modernity ✖ Genre Vessels (Containers) ✖ Genre Medical equipment & supplies ✖ Rights Public Domain Mark 1.0 ✖ Subject Blood ✖ Subject Medicine ✖ Date 1750 to 1799 ✖

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Vessels (Containers), Implements, utensils, etc., Medical equipment & supplies

Bleeding bowl
- 1752
Bowls like this one were used to catch the blood released by bleeding. The appearance of blood was a useful diagnostic tool for physicians, who examined it for clues about the body's internal state. This large bowl was…
- Subject Medicine, Bloodletting, Blood, Phlebotomy

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