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Bloodletting from the ankle vein to treat sciatic pain.
The most renowned physicians through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance up to the Modern practiced bloodletting from the “sciatic vein” (saphena minor or small saphenous vein, which runs behind or under the external ankle) as a cure for sciatic pain.
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Book Review: Biafra Genocide, Nigeria: bloodletting and mass starvation, 1967 – 1970
Book Title: Biafra Genocide, Nigeria: bloodletting and mass starvation, 1967 – 1970Book Author: Al J. VenterBarnsley: Pen and Sword Books, Ltd. 2018. 127 pages. Maps, photographs. Paper back.
Itiri, Nnaemeka Uwakwe
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Stingray Spine Use and Maya Bloodletting Rituals: A Cautionary Tale
Stingray spine use in Maya human bloodletting rituals has long been an accepted phenomenon. Recent work has suggested that intact spines may have been used and that the symptoms resulting from envenomation were an important part of the bloodletting ...
Philip W. Willink +2 more
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Characteristics of clinical effectiveness of bloodletting and proposed ways of mechanism research
According to the operative characteristics, the stimulated site and the curative effect-emerged site of bloodletting therapy, its clinical characteristics may be divided into three categories: a) local stimulation induced focus-local effect, b) local ...
MENG Ying +4 more
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The vocabulary of bloodletting in Galen’s treatises on phlebotomy [PDF]
En este trabajo se hace un repaso a los distintos términos —sustantivos y verbos, principalmente— vinculados con el campo semántico del «corte» o «sección» que aparecen en los tres tratados sobre la flebotomía de Galeno: De venae sectione adversus ...
Durán Mañas, Mónica
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Normative Contractual of Poland's Foreign Policy Toward Ukraine [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
This paper presents a counterfactual of Poland’s foreign policy toward Ukraine since it became a sovereign state. This thought experiment states an alternative history of Poland’s foreign policy toward Ukraine and starts with the question, ‘What if ...
Mateusz Filary-Szczepanik
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Nuckolls, Richard - An inaugural dissertation on bloodletting
Handwritten inaugural dissertation on bloodletting by Richard Nuckolls, of Tennessee.Inaugural dissertation; no ...
Nuckolls, Richard
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The Use of Medicinal Leeches in Plastic Surgery
Leech therapy, or hirudotherapy (HT), has been utilized in medicine for centuries, with applications ranging from bloodletting to modern reconstructive and plastic surgery. This paper explores the historical evolution of leech use in plastic surgery, the
Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu +1 more
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In the following pages, I first propose to treat the subject from a historical point of view; then, to discuss the reasons why the practice of Bloodletting has fallen into disrepute; thirdly, to describe in detail the operation of venesection, dry ...
Young, Richard John Erskine
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