The best example of the phlebotome is in the Cologne Museum.
The identity in shape of the abscess knife and the phlebotome holds good to-day.
The phlebotome is by far the best preserved and best authenticated example which we possess of this instrument.
Heister, for instance, shows as a lithotomy knife a large knife, like a phlebotome in shape.
There is, however, an instrument of bronze of phlebotome shape in the Naples Museum.
