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Bloodletting

Known as: blood letting, therapeutic phlebotomy, venesection 
Puncture of a vein to draw blood for therapeutic purposes. Bloodletting therapy has been used in Talmudic and Indian medicine since the medieval time… 
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1998
1998
Abstract: We report on long‐term therapeutic efficacy and toxicity of recombinant interferon‐alpha 2a (rIFN‐alpha) in a series of… 
1986
1986
Preface Notes 1. Galen and his system: an introduction 2. Galen's Book on Venesection against Erasistratus (translation) 3. Galen… 
Review
1983
Review
1983
The vascular risk factors of patients with polycythemia rubra vera was assessed by reviewing the results of international… 
1981
1981
  • Peter Curtis
  • 1981
  • Corpus ID: 32937781
For 2000 years bloodletting was an accepted form of treatment. During this time, the indications and philosophical basis for… 
1978
1978
It is hypothesized that peritoneal fluid might be used as an alternative vehicle for monitoring the clinical chemistry of… 
1965
1965
Thephysician facedwitha patient seriously ill withchronic bronchitis often feels obliged touse alltherapeutic measures, including… 
1961
1961
Excerpt INTRODUCTION Since Trousseau1first described hemochromatosis, much has been written about the disease, as to both its… 
1956
1956
Increased filling of thoracic circulation produces a diuresis, while decreased thoracic filling causes oliguria. The validity of… 
1937
1937
Excerpt Although venesection has been used for many years as an emergency measure in erythremia, its general use as a therapeutic…