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That idea was held until a few hundred years ago. When a patient was sick with

certain kinds of ailments, doctors would "bleed" the patient, presumably to drain

some of whatever was in him that was making him sick.

Near the end of George Washington's life, he was weak and sinking, and doctors

'bled' him. When it didn't seem to help much, they bled him again, and I believe

they eventually bled him a third and maybe even a fourth time, until the effect

was clear ... he died.

There are procedures in modern medicine where some blood is removed.

Nowadays, it can be blood taken out of a healthy person, and used to replace

blood lost by someone else, either during surgery, or as the result of a violent

injury. Or a person may 'bank' his own blood for use during his own surgery.

But it's never taken out on account of 'too much blood', or to let something

out of a patient that's making him sick.

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