Bloodletting
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Bloodletting (or blood-letting) is the withdrawal of often little quantities of blood from a patient to cure or prevent illness and disease. Bloodletting was based on an ancient system of medicine in which blood and other bodily fluid were considered to be "humors" the proper balance of which maintained health. It was the most common medical practice performed by doctors from antiquity up to the late 19th century, a time span of almost 2,000 years. The practice has now been abandoned for all except a few very specific conditions. It is conceivable that historically, in the absence of other treatments for hypertension, bloodletting could sometimes have had a beneficial effect in temporarily reducing blood pressure by a reduction in blood volume. However, since hypertension is very often asymptomatic and thus undiagnosable without modern methods, this effect was unintentional. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the historical use of bloodletting was harmful to patients.
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| Bloodletting Artifacts from the collection of the ... Bloodletting Artifacts from the collection of the Waring Historical Library, MUSC lowcountrydigital.library.cofc.edu/.../results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOBOX1=bloodletting&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=all - Web |
| The History and Progression of Bloodletting The History and Progression of Bloodletting www.medtech.edu/.../ - Web |
| Medical Antiques: Scarification and Bleeding Medical Antiques: Scarification and Bleeding www.medicalantiques.com/.../Scarifications_and_Bleeder_Medical_Antiques.htm - Web |
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| Pictures of antique bloodletting instruments Pictures of antique bloodletting instruments phisick.com/zphleb.htm - Web |
| PBS's Red Gold: The Story of Blood PBS's Red Gold: The Story of Blood www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/basics/bloodletting.html - Web |
| Huge collection of antique bloodletting instrument... Huge collection of antique bloodletting instruments www.alllancets.com - Web |
| "Breathing a Vein" "Breathing a Vein" phisick.com/article/breathing-a-vein/ - Web |
