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  • M0007183: Manuscript illustration of blood letting
  • Anatomical blood-letting figure, 16th Century
  • Angels performing a "spiritual blood-letting". Gouache.
  • Lancet and case-for blood-letting. Georgian period.
  • Blood letting 18th- 19th century: artificial leeches.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm. Oil painting.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm. Oil painting.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm. Oil painting.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a man's arm. Oil painting.
  • Letting blood by piercing a patient's arm with an arrow. Indigenous North American.