♥Is dat true??????

Question

Back in the old days if you're sick or have an illness in your blood...they will cut your arm and let the bad blood flow out and you wont be sick anymore? That was back in the old days where they didnt have hospitals....I heard that somewhere

Answer 1

They would just slice open your wrist slighty and let you bleed out the so called disease, etc...THis is how George Washington died. He had a throat infection and they decided to bleed him and he lost too much blood. Also back in old days they used to cut you according to your sign. I dont remember exactly which is which , but for example if you were a Taurus, they would bleed you from your neck or if you were a Libra, from your groin area. It was weird stuff back then, but true . I learned all of this in my Phlebotomy class. (which is where you learn to draw blood)

Answer 2

Yes it is true, but here is a more complete answer:

Per Midieval Medicine website:
Phlebotomy (blood-letting) was considered by medieval medicine to be a form of surgery. This view was based on the belief that each organ within a human body had its own organ of origin and, therefore, letting the blood from a specific vein would affect a particular organ. "It was not enough that a patient be bled, he must be bled from a proper vessel. There was a theory that various internal organs were connected with various superficial veins, so that bleeding from these veins drew noxious humours from organs which could not otherwise be reached" (Cameron 165). Because the internal organs were to be in a way worked on, phlebotomy became a surgical procedure.

Blood-letting allowed for the control of humors in a particular part of the body. Phlebotomy was administered in two ways, via derivation or revulsion. Derivation meant letting of blood at a point close to the affected area, and revulsion meant that blood was let at the most remote point to the affected area. Both methods had specific indication for use in the case of different illnesses and were widely employed by medieval physicians.

The dangers of blood-letting are obvious; infection, weakening of the already sick organism, cutting up an artery instead of a vein causing unstoppable bleeding, accidental cutting of nerves, and the loss of consciousness by the patient were the most common issues a medieval doctor had to deal with while administering phlebotomy. More often than not, the result of blood-letting was either continual sickness or death of a patient.

Answer 3

Two things:

Bloodletting is still the standard of care for people with hemochromatosis. So, weird as it sounds, there ARE legitimate medical uses for bloodletting.

Same thing with leeches: they have an anticoagulant and an anaesthetic in their saliva which helps get blood flowing, so modern doctors sometimes use leeches to improve the blood circulation to, say, reattached fingers.

Or maggots? Certain species of maggots will only eat dead tissue. If you were, say, diabetic, with a foot ulcer that just would not heal, a doctor might suggest letting maggots at it. They eat away all the dead, dying stuff, and leave only clean, healthy tissue. I hear it tickles.

Aren't you glad you asked?

Answer 4

Yes it's true, at least it was for my mom's generation. My mother is Asian and when I would have a bad upset stomach from food that didn't agree with me what she would do the start off from my shoulder and pull downwards on my arm with her hands and keep doing this until she gets to the tip of one of my fingers. Then she'd prick me with a needle and squeeze out the "bad" blood (which always looked either really dark red or almost black) and keep sqeezing it out until there was only a little bit coming out or the color became brighter. For some reason it always worked. I've tried it on my kids and it worked for them too.

Answer 5

It was during the victorian era. (1880s-1900s)

It was called bloodletting and it was believed that if you were sick it was because the blood was bad so they would cut you and bleed you.

actually it was a common practice in hospitals, and later a common practice to get done at a barbershop. The barbers in that time would carry leeches and razor blades to "bleed" someone and then bandage them up. thats why a barbershop pole is red and white, it stood for blood and bandages.

Answer 6

Yes. They used leeches for the same resaon. It was thought that the body was made of 4 "humours" matching the 4 elements of earth, air, fire and water. Disease was an imbalance in one of th ehumours.

We still talk about bad blood between people, and people being hot blooded. That's where it comes from.

Answer 7

It is very true! It was believed that the letting of blood could cure disease, and keep a person healthy. They even sold special lancing kits, complete with specialized razor blades and bowls to let the blood into...

Are we not glad they figured out it was useless?

Answer 8

yeah. actually i was watchin a show about that last night. a lot of people died cuz they would let out all the "bad" blood. but u need blood to live

Answer 9

Aren't you glad you live today and not back then?

Answer 10

how can anyone take you serious? It is THAT! not Dat!