Bloodletting: Past and Present

DePalma, Ralph G.; Hayes, Virginia W.; Zacharski, Leo R.

doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.01.071

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“…Although the United Blood Service makes no claim for the health benefits of blood donation by healthy individuals, a number of positive reports describe improved health in regular blood donors, 19 who may donate between four to six times yearly with hematocrit in excess of 38%. Some disagree with these observations.…”

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“…20 The benefits of iron reduction by phlebotomy might prove most favorable for women who do not menstruate and for younger men as well as for other accepted indications to lower iron stores. 19 Additional measures to reduce excess iron stores include avoidance of iron-containing supplements and eating less red meat. Iron supplementation of flour has now been abandoned in Scandinavia.…”

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Ferritin levels, inflammatory biomarkers, and mortality in peripheral arterial disease: A substudy of the Iron (Fe) and Atherosclerosis Study (FeAST) Trial

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Chow

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Journal of Vascular Surgery

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Ferritin levels, inflammatory biomarkers, and mortality in peripheral arterial disease: A substudy of the Iron (Fe) and Atherosclerosis Study (FeAST) Trial

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“…The objective of bloodletting (therapeutic bleeding) is a removing amount of blood volume from an open vein or artery(vascular access [1]) of the patients [2]. Bloodletting is the heritage of prehistoric methods of remedy and its history dates back more than two millennia [3].…”

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Comparison Biochemistries of Obtained Blood Products between The Hijama and Phlebotomy Techniques of Traditional Islamic Remedy;Healthy Young Adults at Fasting State

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Namavary³

2016

J Hosp Med Manage

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“…It was still common during the end of the 19 th century in folk medicine used for malaria in South Italy [12]. Even in academic medicine it remained a popular therapy for many diseases in the 18 th and partly also in the 19 th century [13]. Still the 18 th century Swedish physicians broke with Galen also concerning bleeding as malaria therapy.…”

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The first Finnish malariologist, Johan Haartman, and the discussion about malaria in 18th century Turku, Finland

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2011

Malar J

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After the Great Northern War in 1721, Sweden ceased to be an important military power. Instead, the kingdom concentrated on developing science. Swedish research got international fame with names as Carolus Linnaeus, Pehr Wargentin and Anders Celsius. Medical research remained limited and malaria was common especially in the coastal area and along the shores of the big lakes.Already in the beginning of the 18th century Swedish physicians recommended Peruvian bark as medication and they also emphasized that bleeding or blood-letting a malaria patient was harmful. Although malaria was a common disease in the kingdom, the situation was worst in the SW-part of Finland which consisted of the town of Turku and a large archipelago in the Baltic. The farmers had no opportunity to get modern healthcare until Johan Haartman was appointed district physician in 1754. To improve the situation he wrote a medical handbook intended for both the farmers and for persons of rank.Haartman's work was first published 1759 and he discussed all the different cures and medications. His aim was to recommend the best ones and warn against the harmful. His first choice was Peruvian bark, but he knew that the farmers could not afford it.Haartman was appointed professor in medicine at the Royal Academy of Turku in 1765. The malaria situation in Finland grew worse in the 1770's and Haartman analysed the situation. He found the connection between the warm summers and the spring epidemics next year.In a later thesis, Haartman analysed the late summer/early autumn malaria epidemics in the archipelago. Althouh Haartman did not know the connection between malaria and the vector, he gave astute advice and encouraged the farmers to build their cottages in windy places away from the shallow bays in which the Anopheles females hatched. Haartman died in 1788. After his death malaria research in Turku declined. His medical handbook would not be replaced until 1844.

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Bloodletting: Past and Present

Cited by 30 publications

References 95 publications

Ferritin levels, inflammatory biomarkers, and mortality in peripheral arterial disease: A substudy of the Iron (Fe) and Atherosclerosis Study (FeAST) Trial

Ferritin levels, inflammatory biomarkers, and mortality in peripheral arterial disease: A substudy of the Iron (Fe) and Atherosclerosis Study (FeAST) Trial

Comparison Biochemistries of Obtained Blood Products between The Hijama and Phlebotomy Techniques of Traditional Islamic Remedy;Healthy Young Adults at Fasting State

The first Finnish malariologist, Johan Haartman, and the discussion about malaria in 18th century Turku, Finland

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