LEC review: week 2 understanding phleb Flashcards
An early medical theory by Hippocrates (460-377 AC)
Disease is a result of excess substance ( blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile)
was the most common method of general bloodletting
venesection
Latin: Vene = vein ; Section = ________
Cutting
when were crude tools were used to puncture vessels and allow excess blood to drain out of the body
Stone age
where can we find the application of a leech to a patient evidences bloodletting in about 1400 b.c
Egypt
when did barber-surgeons flourished
middle ages
By 1210, the Guild of Barber-Surgeons has been formed: it divided
the surgeons into
Surgeons of the Long Robe and Surgeons of the Short Robe
barber surgeons who were forbidden by law to do any surgery except bloodletting, wound surgery, cupping, leeching, shaving, tooth extraction, and enema administration
Short Robe surgeons
barber –surgeons who placed a striped pole, from which a bleeding bowl was suspended, outside their doors
Long Robe surgeon
for long robe barber surgeons, what represented the rod squeezed by the patient to promote bleeding
Pole
for long robe surgeons, what corresponded to the bandages,
which were also used as tourniquets
White stripes on the poles
during wat century was phlebotomy was considered a major therapeutic (treatment) process, and anyone willing to claim medical training could perform phlebotomy.
17th and early 18th centuries
tool used for cutting the vein during venesection, was perhaps the most prevalent medical instrument of the times
lancet
usual amount of blood withdrawn
10 mL
required a great deal of practice to maintain the high degree of dexterity
Art of cupping
Cupping involved the application of a heated suction apparatus, called the “cup,” to the skin to draw the blood to the surface. Then the capillaries in that area were severed by making a series of parallel incisions with a knife
true or false
False
a wide double-edge blade at right angles to the handle. They were wiped clean only with rags
fleam
enticing the European medicinal leech, to the spot needing bloodletting with a drop of
milk or blood on the patient’s skin
How long does a leech engorge itself?
1 hour
Other name for european medicinal leech
Hirudo medicinalis
By the mid-18th century, leeching was widely practiced in Europe, especially in _______, Leeches were kept in special vessels that were filled with water and had perforated tops
France
components of the worm’s saliva, which contains a local vasodilator (substance that increase the diameter of blood vessels), a local anesthetic, and ________ , an anticoagulant (a substance that prevents clotting.
hirudin
