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> Well, appearantly it *was* done. This from the
> PBS web site:
AAAACK! Blessed Gods and Saints, am I glad we've
advanced beyond all that.
> Methods of bloodletting
[snip (a keeper, anyway!)]
> General bloodletting by arteriotomy
Eww! It makes me grimmace to think they'd
actually do something like this intentionally.
With an intent to let out blood. I mean, surgeons
do it all the time, but they usually try to tie
the things up before cutting them. And they
always stop them up after they've made an
eccidental cut!
> Arteriotomy was said to be indicated when there
> was a relative emptiness of the veins and an
> overfullness of the larger arteries.
The vascular system isn't my forte, but I'd
suspect that veins are empty when blood pressure
is too low (like what happens when you suffer
shock). That's not the best time to go cutting
any class of vessel.
> In comparison to venesection, the
> operation was infrequently performed.
Well, thank goodness for small miracles!
> Arteriotomy was most often performed on the
> superficial temporal artery or one of its
> branches.
At least it's easy to get at.
> The vessel was partially cut through by a
> single
> transverse incision; when adequate blood was
> removed,
> the artery was completely severed so that the
> ends
> might contract and thus arrest the hemorrhage.
Hm. Sounds too unreliable. <shudder!>
> A
> compress of dry lint was applied to the wound
> along with a tight roller bandage.
There's a plus.
> Maybe Carrajenan doctor DO hold to my original
> cockamamy theory -- or some variant thereof.
> *shivvering at the thought*
Hey - there's no saying _what_ a conculture's
docs will get up to! [In my World, some of them
make use of odd things like electricity and black
powder in their medicine.]
> Oh, and Patrick, remember that at present the
> C-a time
> line only exists upto the mid/late 1300's.
Ah, well. That explains a lot!
> The Black
> Death is ripping through the Mediterranian
> world at
> present. I doubt Kernow doctors were averse to
> bloodletting in that era.
Yar, well. Tis all ancient history, now! ;)
> Now, I certainly HOPE C-a
> gives up phlebotomy along with the rest of the
> world
> in the 1800's, but we'll have to see how things
> evolve.
Actually, I think it was alive into the early
20th century. Hey - there's a good Greek root
that could pass into C-a (perhaps through
Arabic?): phleb-, a blood vessel.
Padraic.
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