"Bloodletting" Quotes from Famous Books
... morning had been bled in the arm, found himself better cured by this message than by any medicine or bloodletting he could have had, and he sent word that he would be at the place without fail at the hour she had appointed. He added that she had wrought an evident miracle, since with one word she had cured a man of a sickness ... — The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre
... "Flebotomy! that is bloodletting: humph! Well, no matter, if 'tis sure to cure me, for I will not lie idle here." The doctor let him know that flebotomy was infallible, especially in ... — The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade |