This isn't leech therapy, but bloodletting, based on the same quack principles that illness was caused by the imbalance of body fluids called 'humors' which could be treated by releasing those humors through cutting various parts of the body.
This isn't leech therapy, but bloodletting, based on the same quack principles that illness was caused by the imbalance of body fluids called 'humors' which could be treated by releasing those humors through cutting various parts of the body.
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