Lower's Transfusion Tubes Model | |||||||||||
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| Inventory Number: | 45160 | ||||||||||
| Object Type: | Object | ||||||||||
| Accession Number: | 1928-49 | ||||||||||
| Primary Inscriptions: | 'Lower's Transfusion Tubes Modelled on his Drawings of 1669
'Fig 1. A silver tube a, ending in a nozzle b with two raised rings to prevent the ligatured vessels from slipping off.'
'Fig 2. Silver tube for passing blood into a man's arm. The end b is inserted into the brachial vein and the the tube is kept in place by a thread passed through the holes in the lugs dd.'
'Fig 3. To the tubes cc are tied a cervical artery a, and a jugular vein f by ligatures d and g respectively. Knots that can be easily tightened or loosened at b and h regulate the blood flow.'
'Fig 4. As india rubber tubing for connexions were not available, Lower used a length of cervical artery (a) to connect tubes bb.'
'Fig 5. The complete apparatus for transfusing from one animal to another. a. Jugular vein into which blood from artery g of another animal, is to be passed. Both vein and artery are tied to silver tubes b and f, at c and h. Tubes b and f are then joined by eee, the connecting tube described in fig. 4'
'Fig 6. A similar apparatus for passing blood from an animal into a man.' | ||||||||||
| Provenance: | Associated with Lower | ||||||||||
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| Material(s): |
Card metal Rubber | ||||||||||
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