Bloodletting

This piece is entitled, “Platter with Seated Nobleman, ca. A.D. 600, Plato Con Hombre Noble Sentado”. It is of Mayan Culture and found in Northern Peten, Guatemala. It is polychromed earthenware. The description on this piece entails, “This exquisite platter shows an important person seated on a small jaguar-skin pillow. That he is a deity of the underworld is shown by the cigar he smokes, his black body paint, and the spot on his cheek. Note the glyphs on the periphery of the platter.” Based on…

Western world only made small attempts to discover the world by experimenting frugal. Instead, Galenism became a stronger dominion as the Church declared its writings sacred. For almost 1,500 years, people lived calmly practicing ligatures and bloodlettings, and living peaceful lives without having the curiosity to discover the world through experimenting. Small discoveries…

good intentions. Since the first documented insane asylum, there have been specific treatments and medicines used for the mentally ill. The standard medicine given to mentally ill patients included performing lobotomies, electroconvulsive therapy, bloodletting, etc. Many of these cruel treatments were no longer being performed at institutions since they were dangerous and had mixed results. For example, lobotomies, or prefrontal leucotomy, were used as a therapeutic measure to assist disturbed…

relieve the symptoms of various minor and major ailments. On the surface, some of these treatments were relatively harmless, such as laying hands on the patient to expel illness, but others were outright dangerous and often harmed the patient. Bloodletting, cutting of the veins in order to cleanse the body, is a prime example of one such harmful procedure (Shapiro 3-19). The time before modern medicine was when it seemed the placebo effect flourished, being the only true relief patients could…

Although the United States government took many steps to try and prevent sectionalism and tensions because of territorial expansion, the tensions between the North and the South In 1819 Missouri had a big enough population to be admitted into the union. However Missouri requested to be admitted as a slave state which would disrupt the balance in representation in the Senate. Congress enacted the Missouri Compromise which would admit Missouri as a slave state, admit Maine as a free state as well…

bloodthirsty culture so they lost blood frequently. As a result, their body evolved to produce more iron to account for that major blood loss occurring in their battles. Hemochromatosis is treated through the process of bloodletting or drawing blood from the patient. Bloodletting…

The Black Death also known as the Black Plague or the Bubonic Plague change the lives of people during the Renaissance and altered medical procedures still used today. The disease, which spread quickly throughout cities for centuries, is actually a bacterial infection and could kill a person within a matter of days. “This infection is found mainly in rodents and their fleas. But the fleas leapt to humans, infecting them with the disease.” The Black Plague swept through Asia and Europe. It…

There were many achievements that occurred in medicine during the Italian Renaissance. Before this medical practises were largely built upon unsearched theories which meant that they were often incorrect and unproductive. But due to the shift towards a more scientific approach health procedures began to improve dramatically. One of the main achievements from the Italian Renaissance was the advancement of procedures because of the knowledge that occurred from anatomy. This achievement was so…

The Four Humors: Foundations of Alchemy The doctors of the medieval era were not the same type of scientists found today. They followed the school of alchemy, a system of learning whose goal was to understand the physical and astral worlds. Alchemists believed these things were inseparable in nature. The foundations of alchemy began in with Hippocrates and Aristotle in ancient Greek times. While alchemy began in ancient Greece those ideas lived on through the medieval era and are still used by…

Killing one’s own comrades in a culture which strictly teaches against doing so is not only a slap in the face to the Danish culture, but also to the Danish people, who created this culture. The Danes, who although glorified physical toughness and bloodletting against their enemies, were taught to never harm their family, and, in a way, comrades can easily be seen as an extension of someone’s family. The people with whom one carouses, or dines and drinks, could also be seen as someone’s family,…