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1) Doctors of the medieval period believed in things called humors. The word humors referred to
certain fluids found in the body: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.
2) Doctors of the medieval period believed in things called humors. The word humors referred to
certain fluids found in the body: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.
3) For some reason, in the Middle Ages, blood and excess blood was often seen as the cause of
multiple ailments. Therefore, doctors would remove large quantities of blood from a persons veins in
the hope that it would cure them. The two main ways of doing this were leeching and venesection.
4) In leeching, a leech was placed on the part of the body that was a concern and the blood-worm
would suck blood (and, in theory, the illness) from the patient.
5) Venesection was a little bit more direct: a doctor would literally open up a vein using a knife called
a fleam and allow blood to drain from the body.
6) Bloodletting was so common that some people drained their blood regularly just because they
believed it would keep them healthy.