Crossword-Solution: PHLEBOTOMY 10 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

The experiments of nature made clear to him the relation of cause and effect, but it is not likely, as Pliny suggests, that he picked up his earliest knowledge from the observation of certain practices in animals, as the natural phlebotomy of the plethoric hippopotamus, or the use of emetics from the dog, or the use of enemata from the ibis.

Gout, which may be taken as the disease upon which he had the greatest reputation, is very badly described, and yet he has one or two fruitful ideas singularly mixed with mediaeval astrology; but he has here and there very happy insights, as where he remarks "nec praeter synoviam locqum alium ullum podagra occupat."(13) In the tract on phlebotomy I see nothing modern, and here again he is everywhere dominated by astrological ideas--"Sapiens dominatur astris." (13) Geneva ed., 1658, Vol.

Unfortunately he took so much that the three boys incontinently died of his phlebotomy, and the Hebrew was obliged to take to flight to save his own life, for the Pope, being informed of what had taken place, execrated the deed and ordered the physician’s arrest.

Thus would he be acting as his own chirurgeon, gaily practising phlebotomy on his person to cure him of his fever.

This counter-irritant, together with a curious and artful phlebotomy, [p.109] blood being taken, as by the Italians, from the toes, the fingers, and other parts of the body, are the Arab panaceas.