"Bloodletting" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Puncture of a vein to draw blood for therapeutic purposes. Bloodletting therapy has been used in Talmudic and Indian medicine since the medieval time, and was still practiced widely in the 18th and 19th centuries. Its modern counterpart is PHLEBOTOMY.
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Bloodletting" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Bloodletting" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Bloodletting" by people in Profiles.
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Treatment of seizures by bloodletting: A call for raised awareness of unfamiliar customs followed by forcibly displaced individuals worldwide. Epileptic Disord. 2023 04; 25(2):262-264.
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[Blood letting therapy in ear apex for 17 cases of iritis]. Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2015 Jul; 35(7):744.
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Therapeutic evolution and the challenge of rational medicine. N Engl J Med. 2012 Sep 20; 367(12):1077-82.
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Modern day bloodletting: is that laboratory test necessary? Arch Surg. 2011 May; 146(5):527.
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Bleeding babies in Badakhshan. Symbolism, materialism, and the political economy of traditional medicine in post-Soviet Tajikistan. Med Anthropol Q. 2006 Mar; 20(1):72-93.
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Bloodletting as a cure for dropsy: heart failure down the ages. J Card Fail. 2005 May; 11(4):247-52.
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Syncope and the history of nervous influences on the heart. Arch Neurol. 2003 Feb; 60(2):282-7.
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Factitious anemia due to self-administered bloodletting in psychiatric patients. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2002 Nov; 190(11):788-9.
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The effects of quality and timing of venepuncture on markers of blood coagulation in healthy middle-aged men. Thromb Haemost. 1995 Jan; 73(1):82-6.
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Hydroxyurea-induced HbF production in anemic primates: augmentation by erythropoietin, hematopoietic growth factors, and sodium butyrate. Exp Hematol. 1992 Nov; 20(10):1156-64.