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To: Paladin2
"Bleeding patients is still practiced daily at Medical Labs everywhere. It seems to help some."

But they aren't doing it to balance the four bodily humors (which, or course, don't exist) - which was the "scientifically established" reason the treatment was almost universally prescribed for hundreds of years.

25 posted on 12/18/2013 10:36:53 AM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity

They were just doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and perhaps to excess.


27 posted on 12/18/2013 10:38:04 AM PST by Paladin2
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