A Brief History of Bloodletting Series: A History, P6
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Source: Britannica
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The most common method of bloodletting was cutting into a vein, typically at the forearm or the elbow. Cupping, another approach, involved scraping the skin and then placing a cup over the scraped skin. Applying heat or suction to the cup created a vacuum that allowed blood to be drawn out. Leeches continued to be used as well. A 15th-century Welsh manuscript records the sites and indications for bleeding, and it even has space for a joke about the armpit: “If you bleed here the patient will die from laughing.”
Across the Atlantic, bloodletting was used in Mesoamerica by Maya priests and rulers, who pierced the tongue, lips, and other body parts and offered their blood as a sacrifice to the gods. The blood loss also helped them enter trancelike states in which they could experience visions.
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