Bloodletting

Bloodletting (also blood loss, English bloodletting) is a procedure for sucking blood from a patient’s body using a needle or syringe with further transfusion of red blood cells to patients with hemophilia, poisoning, kidney and liver pathologies, in case of allergic reactions that provoke the development of “pancanemia”. The first mention of bloodletting was found among the ancient Greek philosophers Aristaeus Pronsky and Hippocrates in the 3rd century BC. e., when they associated epilepsy with an increase in the amount of brain fluid and a decrease in blood content in the blood. Also, such bloodsuction procedures were carried out in Rome during the empire using slave labor. In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was carried out by cutting the patient's veins, which led to bleeding. To make the process more efficient, doctors then actively used drugs, since patients’ skin sensitivity decreased after the incision. Bloodletting was persecuted by the clergy, however, it was sometimes carried out solely to give the sick a chance of survival. Attempts to legalize bloodletting took place in European countries in the 18th century. Such measures were the reaction of doctors to the policies of the reign of Louis XV. If doctors failed to use medication, patients died. In other situations, bloodletting became a form of taking money for one’s services. This is exactly how many doctors of that time behaved. The procedure became unpopular only in the second half of the 19th century. The rejection of it was justified by the positive results of progress in medicine, as a result of which new drugs were invented. Despite the losses, the number of people who do not die during the bloodletting process is