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Bloodletting is used today in the treatment of a few diseases, including hemochromatosis and polycythemia ; however, these rare diseases were unknown and undiagnosable before the advent of scientific medicine.
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Bloodletting and is
Bloodletting ( or blood-letting ) is the withdrawal of often little quantities of blood from a patient to cure or prevent illness and disease.
Bloodletting is one of the oldest medical practices, having been practiced among ancient peoples including the Mesopotamians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Mayans, and the Aztecs.
Bloodletting ( called venesection or phlebotomy ) is one form of treatment, which often may be combined with other therapies.
It is rumored that the canceled Castlevania game, The Bloodletting, eventually became Symphony of the Night.
Bloodletting and used
Bloodletting was used to " treat " a wide range of diseases, becoming a standard treatment for almost every ailment, and was practiced prophylactically as well as therapeutically.
Bloodletting was even used to treat most forms of hemorrhaging such as nosebleed, excessive menstruation, or hemorrhoidal bleeding.
Bloodletting and cauterization were techniques widely used in ancient Islamic society by physicians, as a therapy to treat ill patients.
Bloodletting, the surgical removal of blood, was used to cure a patient of bad " humours " considered deleterious to one ’ s health.
Bloodletting and were
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.
Bloodletting was also popular in the young United States of America, where Benjamin Rush ( a signatory of the Declaration of Independence ) saw the state of the arteries as the key to disease, recommending levels of bloodletting that were high even for the time.
Bloodletting slowly lost favour during the 19th century, but a number of other ineffective or harmful treatments were available as placebos — mesmerism, various processes involving the new technology of electricity, many potions, tonics, and elixirs.
Bloodletting and unknown
Bloodletting and .
Bloodletting persisted into the 20th century and was even recommended by Sir William Osler in the 1923 edition of his textbook The Principles and Practice of Medicine.
The band returned to the studio, this time as a four piece, and in the fall of 2000 released Bloodletting.
The European tour in June 2002, supporting both Bloodletting and Wrecking Everything saw Blaze and Wicked Mystic opening up for Overkill.
Bloodletting of this order was fatal to the division ’ s character, for it had to be made good by drafts from England.
With the cancellation of the Sega 32X as a viable development platform, the team was tasked with developing a new game, so what was usable from The Bloodletting was absorbed into the Symphony of the Night project.
Shortly after graduation, Clugston submitted some of her minicomics to Fantaco, which signed her to write and draw the vampire miniseries Bloodletting.
Clugston followed Bloodletting with one-pagers and shorts in Sarah Dyer's Action Girl and Dark Horse Presents, eventually following editor Jamie Rich to Oni Press.
is and used
In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.
A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.
So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.
But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.
This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.
On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.
The trouble with this machinery is that it is not used and the reason that it is not used is the absence of a conscious sense of community among the free nations.
In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.
The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.
This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.
is and today
Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
He is a utopian with a stake in tomorrow and he is a vulnerable human made captive by the circumstances of today.
The Agreeable Autocracies is an attempt to explore some of the institutions which both reflect and determine the character of the free society today.
It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.
Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.
The road to a guaranteed-neutral, coup-proof Laos is today almost as difficult as warfare on that nation's terrain.
It is a war to stay out of today, especially in view of the fact that President Ngo Dinh Diem apparently does not want United States troops.
But far from being concerned about whether or not Russia will have achieved Utopia by 1980, the world is watching Moscow today primarily for clues as to whether or not there will be nuclear Armageddon in the immediate future.
The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.
The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.
It is high time the United States began to realize that the God-given rights of men set forth in that document are applicable today to Katanga.
I did so because I agree with so many here today, that he is the beloved Speaker of all the people of the United States.
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