bleedings

• “He understands that Dame Nature is a great healer, who is to be assisted rather than coerced; and he dislikes resorting to violent remedies, such as bleedings and strong emetics.”

  A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life

• “Ambulance services were quickly overwhelmed, and groups of people helped victims clutching bleedings wounds, and others were carried to private vehicles in makeshift stretchers fashioned from rugs or bits of debris.”

  The Washington Post: Quake in New Zealand kills at least 65, traps more; shears ice from glacier

• “General market networks will need to do this to stop the ratings bleedings and to steal some of the ratings thunder from Spanish language networks like Univision and Telemundo.”

  The Huffington Post: Roberto Ramos: Latino Boom 3.0: How Latinos Can Save Advertising

• “All the indicators shows they have stopped the bleedings although the patient (economy) is still in the intensive care unit bloated with feeding tubes.”

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• “Another doctor, prescribing a remedy for lung cancer, wrote, “Small bleedings give temporary relief, although, of course, they cannot often be repeated.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Emperor of All Maladies

• “But for the bleedings to be successful, they had to be performed at specific sites in the body.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Emperor of All Maladies

• “The ones that depict situations of illness and disability are graphic snapshots of people who have exhausted all "earthly" efforts; the medicines, the bleedings, and the purgings have not helped; thus, the only prospect left is a miracle.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “Once again, the Condesa de Miravalle serves as an especially clear window, at least into upper-class mentality about health, with her constant prophylactic purgings and bleedings and close attention to diet.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “The Relación de Guatulco states that the Indians had such an aversion to the European practice of bleeding that "they look at it as if it were their death, because they are a weak and gaunt people that do not have the vigor to stand the bleedings.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “He felt this was especially true in the area of Mexico where he worked in the missions, the far north: "on account of the temperament of these lands, as well as the foods eaten here which do not lend themselves to it, and especially because the Indians [here] are not generally able to stand the bleedings.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

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