Bloodletting
event · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
bleed · venesection · bleeding · blood should be abstracted · let blood · opened a vein · opening the vein
spoken of as
1 expressionVenesection“bloodletting”2 mentions
De diaeta in morbis acutis (Greek) · De ulceribus (Greek)
but more especially strong pains of the liver, heaviness of the spleen, and other phlegmasiae and intense pains above the diaphragm, diseases connected with collections of humors,—all these diseases do not admit of resolution, if treated at first by medicine, but venesection holds the first place in conducting the treatment;
in the texts
De diaeta in morbis acutis
The therapeutic act of drawing blood, prescribed under specific conditions and followed by regimen.
If he labors under difficulty of breathing, if it is the summer season, and if he is in the prime of life, and is strong, blood should be abstracted from the arm, and then he should eat hot pieces of bread, dipped in dark wine and oil, drink very little, and labor much, and live on well-fed pork, boiled with vinegar, so that he may be able to endure hard exercises.
If you think it expedient to let blood, see that the bowels be previously settled, and then bleed;
but more especially strong pains of the liver, heaviness of the spleen, and other phlegmasiae and intense pains above the diaphragm, diseases connected with collections of humors,—all these diseases do not admit of resolution, if treated at first by medicine, but venesection holds the first place in conducting the treatment;
De ulceribus
The therapeutic act of drawing blood, either from an ulcer or by opening a vein.
In every recent ulcer, except in the belly, it is expedient to cause blood to flow from it abundantly, and as may seem seasonable;
When you have opened a vein and abstracted blood, and although the fillet be loosed the bleeding does not stop, the member, whether the arm or leg, is to be put into the reverse position to that from which the blood flows;