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Artifact Name	Brass fleam and lancet
Type of Object	Fleam
Date of Manufacture	1820-1850
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	0.9 cm. x 9 cm. x 2.6 cm.
Physical Details	Brass hinged enclosure with two fleam blades and a lancet blade. The apparatus is roughly constructed, and shows signs of significant use and verdigris on the interior of the brass housing. Fleam blades are approximately equal in width, but vary in distance projecting from the blade arm.
Medical Subject	Bloodletting -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1984.46.2
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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