SAle 119
“……What are you doing to my bonus lifespan?” A voice that sharply dropped in tone.
Raciel scanned the inside of the tent with a chilling gaze. The scene within was truly horrifying. A soldier lay unconscious, blood oozing from his arm. This was the same soldier who had undergone leg surgery earlier in the day.
And next to him was…
“What, what? I’m treating him right now. What’s it to you?” Shandre retorted without averting his gaze. Raciel noticed the knife in the man’s hand. He also noticed the bucket placed under the soldier’s arm, already filled with collected blood.
He realized immediately.
‘Could it be? Bloodletting?’
A name suddenly crossed his mind, and he recalled the content he had come across in modern medical history books, not too long ago, just about 200 to 300 years back in the 18th century. During that era, there was a prevailing belief that extracting impure blood from the body would improve a person’s health. Even doctors subscribed to this belief.
‘Especially John Brown, a doctor from Edinburgh, Scotland. He advocated the Brunonian System theory, asserting that life depended on constant physical stimulation. Therefore, when illness struck, he believed that forcibly extracting as much impure blood as possible would increase stimulation and lead to the body’s recovery.’
It was an outrageous theory, a preposterous claim, but it had been a prevailing trend at the time. Even François Victor Broussais, a surgeon who had served in Napoleon’s army and been promoted to a surgical officer, further developed this theory. He actively employed leeches in the practice of bloodletting.