Bloodletting Sites, Adonis And Venus
by Science Source
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Bloodletting Sites, Adonis And Venus
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Science Source
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Statues of Venus and Adonis, their bodies covered with circles, pointing out proper puncture points for bloodletting. Bloodletting was based on an ancient system of medicine in which blood and other bodily fluid were considered to be "humors" the proper balance of which maintained health, but it often weakened sick patients. It was the most common medical practice performed by doctors from antiquity up to the late 19th century, a time span of almost 2,000 years. There has been much scholarship over the centuries concerning the multiple roles of Adonis, if any, and his meaning and purpose in Greek religious beliefs. Modern scholarship sometimes describes him as an annually renewed, ever-youthful vegetation god, a life-death-rebirth deity whose nature is tied to the calendar. Venus is the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility. Her Greek counterpart is Aphrodite.
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January 29th, 2017
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