Automatic blood lancet, which consists of a cylindrical metal instrument with a tip piece that tapers to a small round open end, attached to a larger-diameter gripping piece hat has a cross-hatched pattern stamped into its outer edges; the gripping piece and tip are at the end of a hollow cylindric…
Automatic blood lancet, which consists of a cylindrical metal instrument with a tip piece that tapers to a small round open end, attached to a larger-diameter gripping piece hat has a cross-hatched pattern stamped into its outer edges; the gripping piece and tip are at the end of a hollow cylindrical shaft; the other end of this shaft has a round end piece that can be pulled back to move a lancet inside the shaft; there is a long rounded release lever just before the gripping piece that will release the spring-loaded lancet after it has been pulled back; when the lancet is released, its sharp tip comes out from the hole in the tip; the gripping piece can be rotated up or down to expose less or more of the lancet tip
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Collected by Dr. A. A. Travill for the Queen's University Faculty of Medicine Collection.
The words "TRUDELL // GERMANY" are stamped into the metal shaft
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-F6-11
Dimension Notes
Length 10.7 cm x Width 1.0 cm x Depth 0.8 cm
Condition Remarks
The metal shows minor wear only; no corrosion or staining is visible; the moving parts move freely
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Document
Reference Comments
Previous number #39; Faculty of Medicine Collection 1984 Inventory; "Surgical Instruments Suction and Pressure Apparatus," The J. Sklar Mfg. Co., Inc., 1967, p. 32 (item 115-40)