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Nazi War Finance and Banking Our Economy in War
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| Nazi War Finance and Banking Our Economy in War. Cambridge, Massachusetts National Bureau of Economic Research, 1944. Paperback ASIN B000J0VXBG. The Nazi Economic System Germany's Mobilization for War. New York Russell & Russell, 1971. Hardcover textbook ISBN 0-846-21501-2, ISBN 978-0-84621- 501-1" -- Reference Wikipedia.org back to 187) 188 "Bloodletting" "Bloodletting is one of the oldest medical practices, having been practiced among diverse ancient peoples, including the Mesopotamians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Mayans, and the Aztecs. In Greece, bloodletting was in use around the time of Hippocrates, who mentions bloodletting but in general relied on dietary techniques. Erasistratus, however, theorized that many diseases were caused by plethoras, or over- abundances, in the blood, and advised that these plethoras be treated, initially, by exercise, sweating, reduced food intake, and vomiting. Herophilus advocated bloodletting. Archagathus, one of the first Greek physicians to practice in Rome, practiced bloodletting extensively and gained a most sanguinary reputation. The popularity of bloodletting in Greece was reinforced by the ideas of Galen, after he discovered the veins and arteries were filled with blood, not air as was commonly believed at the time. There were two key concepts in his system of bloodletting. The first was that blood was created and then used up, it did not circulate and so it could 'stagnate' in the extremities. The second was that humoral balance was the basis of illness or health, the four humours being blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, relating to the four Greek classical elements of air, water, earth and fire. Galen believed that blood was the dominant humour and the one inmost need of control. In order to balance the humours, a physician would either remove 'excess' blood (plethora) from the patient or give them an emetic to induce vomiting, or a diuretic to induce urination. Bloodletting was especially popular in the young United States of America, where Benjamin Rush (a signatory of the Declaration of Independence) saw the state of the arteries as the key to disease, recommending levels of bloodletting that were high, even for the time. George Washington was treated in this manner following a horseback rid- 274 ing accident almost 4 pounds (1.7 litres) of blood was withdrawn, contributing to his death by throat infection in 1799." -- Reference Wikipedia.org back to 188) Download 2 Mb. Share with your friends:
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