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Categories: Blood, Medical treatments, Pseudoscience, Medical tests, Traditional medicine
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bloodletting  bleeding  blood-letting  blood letting  Blood letting machine
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Formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) WordNet 3.0
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Formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Bloodletting is the withdrawal of blood from a patient to prevent or cure illness and disease. Wikipedia
A practice once believed to cure diseases Wikipedia Disambiguation
Formerly common medical procedure now generally abandoned. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Therapy to open an artery to draw blood Wikidata
The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person. Wiktionary
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