BLOODLETTING
The practice of bloodletting - draining a significant quantity of blood from the body in an attempt to remove infection and ailment - was a cover-all cure in medieval times, used to treat a wide array of afflictions, from fever to epilepsy. Also long adopted as a treatment for plague, it was naturally applied to victims of the Black Death. The blood was withdrawn in one of two ways: either through the use of a blade to the forearm (the blood would then be
