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The earliest known examples are made of bronze with a myrtle-leaf shape to the blade. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the German Fliete and French flamettes were developed. These devices with their right-angle blades are the earliest forms of what collectors now refer to as the fleam. [3]
An Egyptian medical textbook, the Edwin Smith Papyrus written by Imhotep (fl. 2630-2611 BC), was the first to apply the method of diagnosis to the treatment of disease. [1] Physicians in Ancient Egypt were only able to come up with diagnostics based on symptoms, no tests were being run. [ 2 ]
Phlebotomy is the process of making a puncture in a vein, usually in the arm, with a cannula for the purpose of drawing blood. [1] The procedure itself is known as a venipuncture , which is also used for intravenous therapy .
Therapeutic phlebotomy refers to the drawing of a unit of blood in specific cases like hemochromatosis, polycythemia vera, porphyria cutanea tarda, etc., to reduce the number of red blood cells. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The traditional medical practice of bloodletting is today considered to be a pseudoscience .
Pages in category "Phlebotomy" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bloodletting; C. Capillary; F.
1500 BC – Edwin Smith Papyrus, an Egyptian medical text and the oldest known surgical treatise (no true surgery) no magic [5] 1300 BC – Brugsch Papyrus and London Medical Papyrus; 1250 BC – Asklepios [5] 9th century – Hesiod reports an ontological conception of disease via the Pandora myth. Disease has a "life" of its own but is of ...
The first historical achievement in anesthesia occurred around 4000 BC in ancient Mesopotamia. [5] [10] [33] [34] [35] This was the advent of Ethanol(commonly known as ‘drinking alcohol’), the first general anaesthetic agent.
LD 350-1 is now considered the earliest known specimen of the genus Homo, dating to 2.75–2.8 Ma, found in the Ledi-Geraru site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. It is currently unassigned to a species, and it is unclear if it represents the ancestor to H. habilis and H. rudolfensis, which are estimated to have evolved around 2.4 Ma. [36]