Q&A
Aug 06, 2020
3 minutes
Why did doctors believe that bloodletting would improve a patient’s health?
loodletting dates back thousands of years to the Egyptians. It gained widespread popularity through the writings of the Greek physician Galen, who practised medicine in Rome during the second century AD. He believed that humans carried four bodily humours inside them: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. When these four humours became imbalanced, a person became ill. Health could be restored through
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