Terry Glavin

Afghans long ago resigned themselves to this sort of thing. Compromises must be made. Deals with the devil are better than ceaseless butchery. In the exigencies of post-conflict bygones, against the threat of collapse into more terrible bloodletting, the ugliness of realpolitik is the lesser evil.

Canadian Author

Elizabeth Holmes

The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.

American Businessman

Carrie Brownstein

In Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes; this is the screech of a scar. But Mary Timony was always more kaleidoscope than microscope, creating magical worlds replete with weaponry or sorcery.

American Musician

Art Alexakis

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

Bloodletting was once a common medical treatment but is now outdated.

Historical Medicine

It is crucial to mention that bloodletting was harmful and not scientific.

Misguided Therapy

Bloodletting appears in old literature and can symbolize outdated practices.

Cultural References

Modern usage often refers to mass violence or killings in wars or conflicts.

Modern Violence

Can be used figuratively to describe severe cuts or reductions, like in budgets.

Figurative Use

Has a strong negative connotation; implies tragedy or inhumanity.

Negative Connotation

 like bloodletting and purging. Informed by his poor understanding of the circulatory system, Galen was a strong proponent of these treatments, despite their sometimes lethal consequences. Unfortunately, Galen’s ego drove him to believe that all his discoveries were of the utmost importance.

Ancient Rome’s most...

 people probably know that leeches have been involved in medicine for a very long time going back almost a thousand years leeches were used for bloodletting for everything from hysteria to obesity and a lot of other things that it really didn't work for it wasn't medieval it

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 the even we're using on the lips going down obviously of the chest on the back on the hands of the fingers to treat Emory we cheese yes let's skip that one some patients found out the hard way that excessive bloodletting wasn't always a help but using cups and heat to

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 with more ovarian cancer, more chemotherapy. Six months later, she comes back with acute myeloid leukemia. She goes into respiratory failure and dies eight days later. So the way in which this woman was treated, in as little as 10 years, will look like bloodletting.