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Ein Kurtz Regiment wie sich zu Zeiten der Pestilentz zu halten sey.,
Nuremberg: printed 1533
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The practice of bloodletting dates back more than three thousand years, when illness was thought to be an imbalance of the four bodily humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile), and the release of blood a means to restore a healthy balance. This sixteenth-century woodcut demonstrates what were thought to be effective sites to let blood in response to the plague, including the groin, where plague pustules often formed.<br>
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Nuremberg: printed 1533