The ancient medical practice that persisted for too long - Stephanie Honchell Smith
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Date: 2025-06-18
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ChristianDall-p2j
Before the 20th century, humoral theory was replaced by miasma-theory, which positiv that disease was caused by bad air namely stinky air! Thats why medevil plague-doctors word thoose masks with breaks, thoose breaks were filled with flowers, to neutralisering the foul-smelling air, with good-smelling air, to avoid getting sick themselves! Some docters even proposed contain theory, that diseases could spread from person to person, becauce it obviously did, but doktors still used miasma-theory to explain how diseases originally begin, since Per-german contaguon-theory couldent explain that!
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Before the 20th century, humoral theory was replaced by miasma-theory, which positiv that disease was caused by bad air namely stinky air! Thats why medevil plague-doctors word thoose masks with breaks, thoose breaks were filled with flowers, to neutralisering the foul-smelling air, with good-smelling air, to avoid getting sick themselves! Some docters even proposed contain theory, that diseases could spread from person to person, becauce it obviously did, but doktors still used miasma-theory to explain how diseases originally begin, since Per-german contaguon-theory couldent explain that!
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paintthecosmos840
I was obsessed with the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793 when I was ten years old, and read everything I could about it. My favorite tidbit was this one doctor who stayed in town to treat the infected but sent letters to his wife, who had fled. He caught the fever at one point and treated himself with bloodletting, drinking mercury and other poisons, and various other purging treatments. His letters to his wife would say things like only fell down the stairs three times today, the treatment is really working! He somehow survived, in spite of his desperate sabotage attempts.
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I was obsessed with the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793 when I was ten years old, and read everything I could about it. My favorite tidbit was this one doctor who stayed in town to treat the infected but sent letters to his wife, who had fled. He caught the fever at one point and treated himself with bloodletting, drinking mercury and other poisons, and various other purging treatments. His letters to his wife would say things like only fell down the stairs three times today, the treatment is really working! He somehow survived, in spite of his desperate sabotage attempts.
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veemacks7255
Bloodletting is still a valid treatment for one thing. I had it done a few months ago. If your Ferritin (Iron) numbers are too high, having blood taken lowers those numbers. For those with low iron numbers, it's fairly easy to take iron tablets to raise them. For those with high iron numbers, not quite so simple. Forcing your body to generate new blood dilutes the Iron content. Eventually it'll catch up with you and you have to do it again. I did it a couple of times and my Iron numbers went from 594 down to 150. I might do it once again in 6 months. We'll see.
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Bloodletting is still a valid treatment for one thing. I had it done a few months ago. If your Ferritin (Iron) numbers are too high, having blood taken lowers those numbers. For those with low iron numbers, it's fairly easy to take iron tablets to raise them. For those with high iron numbers, not quite so simple. Forcing your body to generate new blood dilutes the Iron content. Eventually it'll catch up with you and you have to do it again. I did it a couple of times and my Iron numbers went from 594 down to 150. I might do it once again in 6 months. We'll see.
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derkaiser420
I know that it is not very fair to judge people in the past but as a medical student it is crazy to me how long the four humor theory was in practice. It makes absolutely no sense at all. We didn't even really learn that much from these theories. Europeans and Arabs also used a Roman anatomy model for over a millennia that was completely wrong. It was not until the late 1700's that the West changed it. Universal truth should not be measured in mass appeal.
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I know that it is not very fair to judge people in the past but as a medical student it is crazy to me how long the four humor theory was in practice. It makes absolutely no sense at all. We didn't even really learn that much from these theories. Europeans and Arabs also used a Roman anatomy model for over a millennia that was completely wrong. It was not until the late 1700's that the West changed it. Universal truth should not be measured in mass appeal.
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sudipdua1467
i kept seeing people talk about this book The Cancelled Laws of Reality by Selene Veritas, but when i tried to find it, it was nearly impossible. took me days to track it down, but once i read it, i got why. the stuff in here isn’t just theoryit actually works. made a few small changes, and opportunities started showing up like clockwork. if you can get your hands on it, don’t hesitate.
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i kept seeing people talk about this book The Cancelled Laws of Reality by Selene Veritas, but when i tried to find it, it was nearly impossible. took me days to track it down, but once i read it, i got why. the stuff in here isn’t just theoryit actually works. made a few small changes, and opportunities started showing up like clockwork. if you can get your hands on it, don’t hesitate.
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ZackBDoinSht
What’s funny is that leeches arr occasionally used in medical practice today! Typically they’re used in plastic surgery and to help promote blood flow to an area! Maggots are occasionally used too, typically to help remove dead tissues.
Science history is a weird boomerang’s effect of people getting things shockingly right and then shockingly wrong
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What’s funny is that leeches arr occasionally used in medical practice today! Typically they’re used in plastic surgery and to help promote blood flow to an area! Maggots are occasionally used too, typically to help remove dead tissues.
Science history is a weird boomerang’s effect of people getting things shockingly right and then shockingly wrong
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kardeep2329
ever notice how some books just disappear The Cancelled Laws of Reality by Selene Veritas isn’t easy to find, and now i understand why. the things it reveals about energy and attraction insane. i thought i was just unlucky until i applied what it teaches. within weeks, my finances flipped, and i stopped chasing thingsnow they come to me
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ever notice how some books just disappear The Cancelled Laws of Reality by Selene Veritas isn’t easy to find, and now i understand why. the things it reveals about energy and attraction insane. i thought i was just unlucky until i applied what it teaches. within weeks, my finances flipped, and i stopped chasing thingsnow they come to me
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ted_ed
I can never fully undestand how the theory of humors survived so long and spread so much. Many traditional peoples had actual and efficient medical knowledge, while in Europe doctors were killing their patients faster for over a thousand years without ever considering that their method was doing absolutely nothing in healing
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I can never fully undestand how the theory of humors survived so long and spread so much. Many traditional peoples had actual and efficient medical knowledge, while in Europe doctors were killing their patients faster for over a thousand years without ever considering that their method was doing absolutely nothing in healing
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togepee
I’m a medical lab science student and my instructor told us that the lab used to have to do something called a bleeding time test where you make a patient bleed to see how long it takes for their blood to clot. I don’t think anyone does this anymore.
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I’m a medical lab science student and my instructor told us that the lab used to have to do something called a bleeding time test where you make a patient bleed to see how long it takes for their blood to clot. I don’t think anyone does this anymore.
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aaryanudhaya3975
I am an Ayurvedic doctor and I am still practicing blood letting.
Edit: My replies are being removed and I don't know why. In Ayurveda we call it as Raktamokshana. You can search for this term and find some good research papers online.
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I am an Ayurvedic doctor and I am still practicing blood letting.
Edit: My replies are being removed and I don't know why. In Ayurveda we call it as Raktamokshana. You can search for this term and find some good research papers online.
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MarianneKat
I'm a nurse in an outpatient infusion clinic and we do therapeutic phlebotomy for patients with excessive rbcs or hemachromotosis.
I used to work in trauma icu and yes we used sterile lab grown leeches for reattached fingers.
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I'm a nurse in an outpatient infusion clinic and we do therapeutic phlebotomy for patients with excessive rbcs or hemachromotosis.
I used to work in trauma icu and yes we used sterile lab grown leeches for reattached fingers.
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rubyb2298
Anytime I think about bloodletting, I think about a novel we had to read in school called Fever 1793, where the main character's mom got yellow fever and had to get bloodletting done by the local doctor. That book scarred me fr.
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Anytime I think about bloodletting, I think about a novel we had to read in school called Fever 1793, where the main character's mom got yellow fever and had to get bloodletting done by the local doctor. That book scarred me fr.
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Brukujin
Any benefit you get from donating blood is also benefit of bloodletting.
Also in modern times, human blood is polluted with inert molecules like teflon and their Cx glue. So donating blood is recommended.
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Any benefit you get from donating blood is also benefit of bloodletting.
Also in modern times, human blood is polluted with inert molecules like teflon and their Cx glue. So donating blood is recommended.
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graymonk5972
i have hereditary hemochromatosis (too much iron in my blood) and bloodletting is still the best treatment option for me.
it’s always funny to walk ppl’s reaction when i tell them this
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i have hereditary hemochromatosis (too much iron in my blood) and bloodletting is still the best treatment option for me.
it’s always funny to walk ppl’s reaction when i tell them this
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luisandrade3928
It takes some incredibly backward thinking to see people bleeding to death in a battle field and thinking that taking people’s blood is going to save their lives
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It takes some incredibly backward thinking to see people bleeding to death in a battle field and thinking that taking people’s blood is going to save their lives
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PsyphoriaLab
The TED-Ed intro sound is so iconic, I still hear it even when my sound is off. That’s when you know it’s legendary. Anyone else feel that echo in their soul
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The TED-Ed intro sound is so iconic, I still hear it even when my sound is off. That’s when you know it’s legendary. Anyone else feel that echo in their soul
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ZaxorVonSkyler
I've had had wet cupping done before, I didn't think it was going to do much but I was surprised it made me feel alot more energetic and cured my depression!
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I've had had wet cupping done before, I didn't think it was going to do much but I was surprised it made me feel alot more energetic and cured my depression!
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francesleones4973
Every time I wonder what it'd be like to live in ye olden times, I remember the medical practices back then, and then thank God I live in the modern era
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Every time I wonder what it'd be like to live in ye olden times, I remember the medical practices back then, and then thank God I live in the modern era
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scoops2
We’ve come full circle, this is basically the only way to reduce forever chemicals in the body. (People who donate blood have lower levels)
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We’ve come full circle, this is basically the only way to reduce forever chemicals in the body. (People who donate blood have lower levels)
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