In the case of doctors, that meant bleeding their patients.

就医生而言，这意味着为病。

To correct the balance of these fluids, doctors employed dangerous treatments like bloodletting and purging.

为了矫正这四种体液的平衡，医生采了和净化等危险的治疗方法。

" That'll purge me, " he urged as an objection to all reasoning.

" 就不痒了。" 么意见也听不进去。

When he fell sick several days later, he had a doctor bleed him.

【bleed】几天后他病倒了，就让一个医生给他做治疗。

Therapeutic phlebotomy or bloodletting can be used to manage iron overload, as well as deferoxamine, an iron chelating agent.

治疗性静脉切开术或疗法可于治疗超负荷，也可使螯合剂去胺。

He'd also seek out patients undergoing bloodletting in order to take all their life juice for himself.

他还会寻找正在接受治疗的病，以便把他们的液都拿来自己喝掉。

Physicians would try any desperate measure, bloodletting was tried, leeches were used, but none seemed to work.

内科医生尽各种权宜之计，尝试 水蛭吸等方法 但没有一种方法得见起效。

Relax. I didn't kill anyone for it. This phlebotomist I went out with a few times, he's my supplier.

别紧张。我没为了它杀。我和这个医师约会几次，他是我的供货商。

But here's the thing: Why was bloodletting so popular in so many places for so long?

为么这么长时间以来，在那么多地方如此流行？

Scenes depicting ritual bloodletting as well as parades of musicians hint at a complex culture that fascinates us to this day.

描绘仪式和乐师游行的场景暗示了一种复杂的文化，至今仍吸引着我们。

Some seem strange now, like the bloodletting tools.

有些现在看来颇为奇特，比如工具。

Bloodletting, purging, fasting -- they were all well-regarded treatments.

、催吐、禁食——它们都曾是备受推崇的治疗方法。

First, the chosen ones had to complete a four-day fasting and bloodletting ritual.

首先， 被选中的必须完成为期四天的禁食和仪式。

How people were bled varied with time, place, and practitioner.

们进行的方式因时间、地点和医生的不同而异。

The cure, ideally, is to let the blood out.

理想的治疗方法是。

Circa 1000 CE, Al-Zarrawi describes surgical instruments for use in bloodletting.

约1000年，阿尔-扎拉维描述了于的外科手术工具。

Although I suppose they could try and drain him, but that doesn't work.

尽管我想他们可以尝试给他，但那并不奏效。

Doctors who believed in the four humors and used cupping or leeches to drain blood.

相信四体液理论并使拔罐或水蛭的医生。

The doctor prescribed leeches, mustard-poultices, and calomel, and ordered him to be bled.

医生开了水蛭、芥末膏和甘汞的处方，并命令他。

They were used to take blood from patients in hopes of removing their sickness as well.

它们曾被于从病身上，以期消除疾病。