Bloodletting

Although bloodletting is now recognized as dangerous and misleading tradition, it carries a deep and interesting history that deserves to be acknowledged. Bloodletting is the purposeful draining of blood for various medical reasons. Throughout history, the practice has been advised for acne, asthma, cancer, cholera, coma, convulsions, diabetes, epilepsy, gangrene, gout, herpes, indigestion, inflammation prevention, insanity, jaundice, leprosy, plague, pneumonia, scurvy, smallpox, stroke, tetanus, tuberculosis, nosebleeds, and even excessive menstruation. The exercise of this concept was carried out in one of multiple different ways. The first of which, was the phlebotomy or venesection, often referred to as ‘breathing a vein’. This method involved…

learned a thing or two about phlebotomy. I know I did. Its history, its presence today, and education required are just a small part of phlebotomy. It’s a little bloody, yes, but it could save lives. Blood is life. It puts life in people. Phlebotomy was used for thousands of years, no wonder it’s important. (Final Statement, connected with opening) Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood. That is a lot of blood. But don’t worry; there are thousands of certified people that…

In Islam, however, they devote themselves to their god by having annual bloodlettings. Opposing people believe that bloodletting has a positive impact since, it has been shown to lead unity throughout the community.The impact of bloodletting in Islam has a negative impact because it leads to bad health, causes threats, and results into violence. Most importantly,…

According to (Greenstone, 2010), the practice of bloodletting was a preferred method adopted by doctors and barber-surgeons for several centuries, and is currently, probably surprisingly, still used in a few particular symptoms. The success of bloodletting in treating ailments like pneumonia was persuasively countered in the mid-nineteenth century, but medical conservatism made sure that bloodletting continued well into the 20th century. Currently, phlebotomy therapy is centrally employed in…

Hi Omari I agreed with your description of a barber job. It is unvilable how barbers performed surgeons' occupations without even having any knowledge about it.So, they put the lives of many people in danger. However, you forgot to mention an interesting detail about surgeon barbers.They also performed the role of dentists and blood-letters. I can't imagine barbers using hair care equipment to conduct dental jobs. But, do not get me wrong, I respect this profession because this was part of the…

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development serves as one of quite a few outstanding themes within the book. One practice in particular, regarding science and medicine, exceeded the use and significance of all others; ¨This practice was called bloodletting and was the most common procedure performed by surgeons for almost two thousand years¨ (Science Museum 1). Bloodletting…

Losing blood was thought to be beneficial to people's health.The doctor would open a vein with a sharp piece of wood or a lancet, which is a small two edged surgical knife. The opening of the vein causes blood to flow out of the body and that will in hope get the bad bacteria out of the blood. Bloodletting is considered one of medicine's oldest practices. Bloodletting was the most common practice by surgeons for almost two thousand years. It's thought to have came from Egypt, it then spread to…

1. Explain the relationship between the skeletal and muscular systems. The relationship between the skeletal and muscular systems is that the muscular is responsible for the movement of the human body. Which is attached to the bones of the skeletal system. The skeletal performs vital functions like support, protection, and movement. 2. Why is the circulatory system important? The circulatory system is important because it transports blood and other materials throughout the body. Without the body…

The poor were often better off when it came to medical care during this time period because they could not afford the costly and detrimental procedures that physicians used at this time. The rich may have had access to these procedures, but most of them were more dangerous than beneficial. For example, many physicians considered bloodletting the cure all for any disease, but actually bloodletting could lead to death by contamination, infection, or loss of too much blood. They believed that…