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  2. Bloodletting - Wikipedia

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    Bloodletting (or blood-letting) is the withdrawal of blood from a patient to prevent or cure illness and disease. Bloodletting, whether by a physician or by leeches , was based on an ancient system of medicine in which blood and other bodily fluids were regarded as " humours " that had to remain in proper balance to maintain health.

  3. Heroic medicine - Wikipedia

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    Breathing a Vein, a caricature of bloodletting by venesection by James Gillray, 1804 [1]. Heroic medicine, also referred to as heroic depletion theory, was a therapeutic method advocating for rigorous treatment of bloodletting, purging, and sweating to shock the body back to health after an illness caused by a humoral imbalance.

  4. Traditional Korean medicine - Wikipedia

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    The building in the picture is a hospital that specializes in Korean medicine. Korean medicine traditions originated in ancient and prehistoric times and can be traced back as far as 3000 BCE when stone and bone needles were found in North Hamgyong Province, in present-day North Korea.

  5. Cupping therapy - Wikipedia

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    Cupping therapy is a form of pseudoscience in which a local suction is created on the skin with the application of heated cups. As alternative medicine it is practiced primarily in Asia but also in Eastern Europe, the Middle East , and Latin America .

  6. Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis - Wikipedia

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    Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis (14 April 1787 – 22 August 1872 [1]) was a French physician, clinician and pathologist known for his studies on tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and pneumonia, but Louis's greatest contribution to medicine was the development of the "numerical method", forerunner to epidemiology and the modern clinical trial, [2] paving the path for evidence-based medicine.

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    Some early breast cancer patients can safely avoid specific surgeries, according to two studies exploring ways to lessen treatment burdens.. One new study, published in the New England Journal of ...

  8. Medieval medicine of Western Europe - Wikipedia

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    The ultimate healer in this interpretation is of course God, but medical practitioners cited both the Bible and Christian history as evidence that humans could and should attempt to cure diseases. For example, the Lorsch Book of Remedies or the Lorsch Leechbook contains a lengthy defense of medical practice from a Christian perspective.

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