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Bloodletting
Blood-letting was a common practice for almost 2000 years as a "cure" for ailments such as, but not limited to, hyptertension, fever, apoplexy, and headache. "Bleeding" a patient to health was modeled on the process of menstruation. Hippocrates believed that menstruation functioned to "purge women of bad humors".
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