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Blood Letting

Bloodletting is one of the oldest medical practices in history. The earliest records of it for health purposed come from 3,000-year-old. We also indicated that Ancients Hindus bled sick individuals in the hopes of healing them. Ancients Syrian were known to use leeches for bloodletting as well. The practice was in fact common all over the world, right up until the late 19th century. In western medicine, bloodletting was based on ancients Greek that the human body was composed of four humors (or bodily fluids) blood phlegm, blood air, black bile, and yellow bile, which corresponded to the four Greek classical elements of air, water, earth, and fire. Bloodletting was thought to be beneficial in healing nearly every disease like acne, asthma, cancer, cholera, coma, convulsions, diabetes, epilepsy, gangrene, gout, herpes, indigestion, insanity, jaundice, leprosy, ophthalmic, plague, pneumonia, scurvy, smallpox, stroke, tetanus, tuberculosis, and for someone hundred other diseases. Bloodletting was even used to treat most forms of hemorrhaging such as nosebleed, excessive menstruation, or hemorrhoids bleeding. Before surgery or at the onset of childbirth, blood was removed to prevent inflammation. Before amputation, it was customary to remove a quantity of blood equal to the amount believed to circulate in the limb that was to be removed. Bloodletting wasn’t limited to curing disease either but also used as a preventive measure to avoid getting sick.