Partial syllabic lists of the clinical morphologies of the blood, sputum, feces, skin, urine, vomitus, foods : including potable waters, ice and the air, and the clothing (after Salisbury) / by Ephraim Cutter.

  • Cutter, Ephraim, 1832-1917.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Partial syllabic lists of the clinical morphologies of the blood, sputum, feces, skin, urine, vomitus, foods : including potable waters, ice and the air, and the clothing (after Salisbury) / by Ephraim Cutter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    tale, I set myself to work to photograph as many of the appearances in consumptive blood as I could. Probably this was the first attempt of this kind. Never before this had I known of any blood being photographed save for medico-legal purposes. I found the subject very much hampered with details which I thought should be done away with. Feeling the greatness of the work, and that it should be done before my eyesight and faculties were too old, I gave up a fine country practice and set- tled in Cambridge, Mass., as I thought this seat of learning would be the most favorable for the encouragement and prosecution of my work. The winter of 1875-6 was spent in working up micro-photography. Fortunately I came across Dr. G. B. Harriman, Surgeon-dentist, of Bos- ton, who possessed magnificent objectives made by R. B. Tolles, among them the 1-50 inch and 1-75 inch. He entered into the work heartily, and together we took micro-photographs of con- sumptive blood morphology for the first time and with the highest powers ever used up to that time and since (so far as I can ascertain), and which have been pronounced good in Europe. The account of this work may be found in the American Journal of Science, New Haven, August, 1879; Scientific A7nerican Supple- ment, September, 1879; Journal of Micro- graphic, Paris, 1879. These photographs have been placed on the screen before the American