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confections

NOUN
sweet food
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Regular venesections - collecting blood for diagnosis - mean their iron counts are going down.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2023

Pechlin reports 155 venesections in one person in sixteen years, and there is a record of 1020 repeated venesections.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Balmes mentions a case in which 500 venesections were performed in twenty-five years.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

As has been pointed out, the high mortality of some of the older epidemics is to be explained by the venesections practised at the beginning, and even during the course, of the attack.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Lucas speaks of 50 venesections being practiced during one pregnancy.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)



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