Medieval Medicine

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(Livingston) Although patients often died because of infections, the loss of consciousness, and cutting of arteries, which caused unstoppable bleeding, many physicians believed this was a method of surgery. In leeching, the physician would attach an annelid worm to the effected area and allow the leech to do its job...
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With the cupping method, when the cup was heated hot enough, it acted like a vacuum and sucked the blood up through the skin. For venesection, it "was the direct opening of a vein, generally on the inside of the arm, for the draining of a substantial quantity of blood." (Livingston) The process of bloodletting was from an idea that blood was to be drawn from a "specific vein" so it would affect a particular organ...
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