bleeding
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The bleedings temporarily reduced the subjects' red-cell count, decreasing their oxygen-carrying capacity and thus their endurance by about 30%.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Almost as illogical as the bleedings and purgings of previous generations," continued the pathologist, is the custom of making all victims of heart attacks stay in bed for six weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prior to the bleedings, Ekblom had each one run on a treadmill to determine his normal endurance; the average time from the start of the exercise to exhaustion was 5.73 min.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the beginning of the epidemic, Rush used mild purges and moderate bleedings and urged patients to sit in cool air, take cold baths, and eat light meals.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
Rush then showed members of the Free African Society how to drain blood from a patient and they marched out to perform over 800 bleedings.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
