Finding Katahdin Document Packets, Chapter 5, Section 2
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Benjamin Vaughan letter to Dr. Page about bloodletting / Maine Historical Society
Chapter 5, page 140.
This 1801 letter from Benhamin Vaughan to Dr. Page recommends bloodletting, or phlebotomy, to cure a patient's aliment.
Bloodletting was a common healing technique. Doctors would cut patients in several spots and allow their blood to drain, with the idea that the sickness would leave their body through the blood.
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