Name: Why was bloodletting so popular? - Stephanie Honchell S | MovEng Watch
Uploaded: 2026-05-20T15:15:28.425Z
Duration: 6 min 33 s
Description: Дивіться TED-Ed про історію кровопускання і вивчайте англійську для медицини, симптомів та старих методів лікування.

On December 14th, 1799, former US President George Washington woke , his throat with pain.

He died later that day, from what’s suspected to have been a badly infected epiglottis, but not before he was prescribed an enema, steam therapy, and .

And yet this wasn’t totally for the time.

Bloodletting was a medical practice that dated at least as far back as ancient Greece.

Physicians like Hippocrates believed good health came from balance among what they called the body’s four : yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood.

They attributed bad health to humoral , so treatments included purging, peeing, enemas, and bloodletting.

To supply the booming industry, catchers waded through boglands, using themselves as well as animal meat and organs as bait.

involved scraping the skin and drawing blood out.

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