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Bloodletting. Dead end in medicine or an endless inspiration for modern nephrology? Part 1
Nowadays bloodletting is used as a treatment for polycythemia and hemochromatosis. However, for centuries it was used to treat numerous other diseases, mostly without any justification.
Wołyniec, Wojciech; Nephrology Department, Szpitale Pomorskie, Gdynia, Poland; Department of Occupational, Metabolic, and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland
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Bloodletting. Medical dead end or an incessant inspiration for modern nephrology. Part 2.
Nowadays bloodletting is used as a treatment of polycythemia and hemochromatosis. However, for centuries it was used to treat numerous other disorders, mostly without any justification.
Wołyniec, Wojciech; Department of Nephrology, Pomeranian Hospitals in Gdynia; Department of Occupational, Metabolic and Internal Diseases, Medical University of Gdańsk
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This paper observed the effect of ear-tip bloodletting therapy combined with external application of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in treating hordeolum at the early stage in a child, and summarized related nursing measures during the treatment. Key
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BLOODLETTING IN CHILDREN [PDF]
HISTORY OF BLOODLETTING The history of bloodletting prior to the nineteenth century gives but scant mention of the employment of this therapeutic measure in children. The very fact, however, that ancient and medieval medicine would under ordinary circumstances not dispense with depletion justifies us in assuming that the children were subjected to the
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A recent viewpoint paper by Manuel Magalhães-Sant’Ana (2019) discussed the evidence regarding history, conceptions and modern research related to Traditional Chinese Veterinary Acupuncture (TCVA).
Yusheng Hu, Zhongjie Liu
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Family Practice History: Bloodletting
For 2000 years bloodletting was an accepted form of treatment. During this time, the indications and philosophical basis for lancing, cupping, and the application of leeches evolved in conjunction with advances in anatomy and physiology. In the late 19th
Curtis, Peter
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Un garrot dans l’instrumentarium du médecin antique ?
The presence of a small buckle placed inside a metal box containing eye drops among the furniture of the eye specialist kit of La Favorite (Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon) has led us to consider this insignificant object as a medical instrument in itself ...
Mélanie Lioux
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Duarte Madeira Arrais (1596-1652) published in 1638 in Portuguese an apology of bloodletting in the feet. This text followed the controversial tradition marked by the earlier debate in Portugal between two humanist physicians, the French Pierre Brissot ...
Hervé Baudry
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For more than two thousand years, almost all doctors in the West used bloodletting to treat a great variety of diseases and conditions. In an attempt to find out why they acted thus, Dr Brain has translated the three works on bloodletting by the second ...
Peter Brain
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Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of heat stimuli (e.g., fire needling, warm needling) in acupuncture for acute gout.Methods: Four international online databases (PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, and Chinese National Knowledge ...
Ji Hye Hwang, Aejin Song, Ho-Sueb Song
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