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Bloodletting and the treatment of menstrual disorders in early modern England

February 6, 2020

Rhianna Elliott Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Figure 1. Title page: Culpeper’s school of physick (London, 1659). Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY. Source Bloodletting, also known as “phlebotomy,” was a common preventive and therapeutic medical practice in early modern England. Its theoretical foundation was in humorism, the ancient medical system where bodily health depended on the […]

Pig-tail probe

May 21, 2019

Zeynel A. Karcioglu Charlottesville, Virginia, USA A cartoon by the author comparing the tails and depicting the probe in question. I read with great interest Dr. Stanley Gutiontov’s article entitled “Pig man: pigs in medicine from Galen to transgenic xenotransplantation” in Hektoen International, and it reminded me of an amusing “pig-related” experience I had […]