bloodletting

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Bloodletting, a procedure with ancient roots, was a common treatment for many ailments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Thus began one of the strangest incidents in American history, which Andy McPhee documents in “The Doctors’ Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

Bloodletting, for example, persisted for hundreds of years in Europe even though it almost certainly weakened and killed the sick.

From New York Times • May 18, 2017

Bloodletting as a treatment may also have hastened Mozart’s death.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2010

I know five kinds of fever, and four humors, Bloodletting, and the way to feel for tumors.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz