Flow
A Fliete ( Flieth, Flieten, Lasseisen ), after lat . flebotomum , is a bloodletting knife, a specially shaped knife that bathers used to perform bloodletting in the Middle Ages . But also the lace-like, tapered, small weaving shuttles for picture knitting are called flies .
Condition and handling
The flute consists of a 12-15 cm long, 1 cm wide and 3–5 mm thick iron handle, to which a heart-shaped to blunt-lanceolate blade is attached at a right angle 1–1.5 cm from the end . The blade of the flute is placed over the vein and driven through the skin with a blow on the back using a mallet .
Other bloodletting instruments are the lancet and the sniper .
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Friedrich Gurlt , Karl Heinrich Hertwig : Surgical anatomy and operating theory for veterinarians . G. Reimer, Berlin 1847, p. 36 .