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  • fleam, a device for bloodletting
    bloodletting
    / Bloodletting in the modern world

    Today, the word phlebotomy refers to the drawing of blood for use in diagnosis or for transfusions in conventional medicine. Phlebotomy is, arguably, a form of bloodletting—and sometimes the words are considered effectively synonymous—but the modern-day practice has nothing to do with the traditional purposes and techniques of


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    Today, the word phlebotomy refers to the drawing of blood for use in diagnosis or for transfusions in conventional medicine. Phlebotomy is, arguably, a form of bloodletting—and sometimes the words are considered effectively synonymous—but the modern-day practice has nothing to do with the traditional purposes and techniques of


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