The employment of means for arresting the flow of blood -- such as venesection, opium, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

The French surgeons now use laudanum and abstain from venesection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831] Reference

The man lost his life, although not his blood, by this imaginary venesection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference

I did a venesection (ph) in the same vein, the left arm had been on President Kennedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2003] Reference

Those ruptures in the back which spread down to the elbows are removed by venesection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

The blood in venesection has an oily appearance, and displays small particles like sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

Persons who are benefited by venesection or purging, should be bled or purged in spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

These measures did no good but surely did less harm than venesection or a swig of mercury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War] Reference

Strangury and dysuria are cured by drinking pure wine, and venesection; open the vein on the inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking undiluted wine, plenteous bathing with hot water, and venesection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking pure wine, or the bath, or a fomentation, or venesection, or purging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

Pouch of serous membrane covering the testis and derived from the peritoneum. venesection (venisection, phlebotomy).    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Hence the disease occurs most commonly in boys and in those who are careless about cleanliness and neglect venesection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

When the loins are in a tetanic state, and the spirits in the veins are obstructed by melancholic humors, venesection will afford relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference

With a view to remove urgent symptoms, venesection has repeatedly been had recourse to, but in almost all instances I would say, with decidedly bad effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

In gout of the sanguineous type the favorite remedy of Gilbert was venesection, pushed to extremes which suggest the bloody theories of his later confrere Bouillaud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

M.M. In the three former kinds venesection repeatedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Internally, after venesection, gentle repeated cathartics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Van der Wiel performed venesection 49 times during a single pregnancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Evacuations by venesection and catharsis, and then by the exhibition of opium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

After passing his fiftieth year an individual should abstain from venesection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

His treatment of the disease in young persons was by venesection and cool douches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

His treatment consists in venesection, purgatives, and, when pus is formed, local incision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

In these are included venesection, the opening of an artery, cupping, leeches, and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

For apoplexy and the consequent paralysis, Alexander considered venesection the best remedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

When the difficulty of respiration is great, venesection is immediately necessary, and then an emetic, and a blister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

In young strong patients the gout should be cured by venesection and cathartics and diluents, with poultices externally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Both which, however, when they occur, require immediate venesection by the lancet or by leeches, as well as the peripneumony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Wine and opium, and sometimes venesection in small quantity by cupping, if the strength of the arterial system will allow it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

M.M. Diluents, mucilage, antimonials, warmish air constantly changed, venesection once, perhaps twice, if the pulse will bear it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Warm compresses, venesection from the sublingual veins, and from the jugular, and purgatives in severe cases, are the further remedies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

Possibly the most remarkable instances of extensive loss of blood, with recoveries, are to be found in the older records of venesection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Sometimes he was seized with violent head-ache and dizziness, which, as well as the other symptoms, were greatly relieved by venesection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

Where the tooth is sound it can only be saved by evacuations by venesection, and a cathartic; and after its operation two grains of opium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

This kind of angina is frequently attended with irritated fever besides the sensitive one, which accompanies all inflammation, and sometimes requires venesection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Copious venesection, when a difficulty of breathing continues between the fits of coughing; otherwise the cough and the expectoration cease, and the patient is destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

It is attended with sensitive fever alone, and is cured by the steam of warm water externally, and by diluents internally, with moderate venesection and gentle cathartics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Even Louis, who had not wholly given up venesection, used now and then to order that a patient suffering from headache should be bled in the foot, in preference to any other part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference