An historical sketch of blood-letting / by Joseph T. Smith.

  • Smith, Joseph T.
Date:
1910
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Credit: An historical sketch of blood-letting / by Joseph T. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 1 , AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF BLOOD-LETTING.* tK'5’1 By Joseph T. Smith, Ite practice of blood-letting is one of the oldest; it has vC'n used to combat disease for more than two thousand years, ':'l the earliest medical writers make mention of it, but its fipin is unknown. Hippocrates drew bio. from the arm, feet, legs, forehead *l{ea(i before The Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club, ■truary 14,1910. Sr., M. D., Baltimore, Md. and from under the tongue, employing the measure as a simple evacuant, as a derivative for the purpose of giving the blood and animal spirits free movement in cases of apoplexy and j palsy because stagnation was believed to exist and to cool the body. He recommended its use in violent and acute diseases in the strong, particularly those in middle life, but thought it harmful in the very young, the old and feeble. If the occa- Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, vol.21, 1910, pp.311-6.