Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Bloodletting was for thousands of years a standard medical practice. Only going into the 1900s did it begin to fade, with a new wave of more scientific treatments sweeping away the old. Today blood letting is seldom used, and only for a small number of cases. All that is left is to look back and learn from the dark history of this strange practice. #shorts