For roughly two thousand years, if you got sick almost anywhere in the Western world, a doctor’s first move was to cut you open and drain your blood into a bowl like this one. From ancient Greek humoral theory to the death of George Washington, this is the full story of bloodletting: the tools, the barber-surgeons, the bleeding calendars built around astrology, and the French physician whose careful counting finally brought the whole two-thousand-year practice down.
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- Medical history book on the history of bloodletting and humoral medicine
- Reproduction antique-style pewter bowl (decorative)
- Vintage barber pole wall decor
- Biography of George Washington covering his final illness
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