Method Looking for information about medieval bloodletting

[tormentedhusk]

Bloodletting was a remedy used by medieval doctors in a misguided effort to cure their patients. Many people got accidentally killed this way, so I was thinking of it as a potential way CTB.

It's definitely atypical,

Where can I find good information about medieval bloodletting?

Can this be a viable method?

 

[tormentedhusk]

How to replicate medieval bloodletting setup?

 

[TAW122]

I don't think blood letting (exsanguination) is a reliable way through because your body's blood will eventually coagulate, clot, therefore slowing if not completely stop the bleeding (unless you are using a blood thinner or have preexisting conditions that causes blood to not clot). Also, it is likely you might be saved before dying, and then ending up with a lot of complications due to blood loss. In a sense, the only way that would be likely is if one hit an artery and did not stop the bleeding and not have immediate medical attention for an extended amount of time, then death is more likely, but in today's world that is less common though.

 

[tormentedhusk]

I don't think blood letting (exsanguination) is a reliable way through because your body's blood will eventually coagulate, clot, therefore slowing if not completely stop the bleeding (unless you are using a blood thinner or have preexisting conditions that causes blood to not clot). Also, it is likely you might be saved before dying, and then ending up with a lot of complications due to blood loss. In a sense, the only way that would be likely is if one hit an artery and did not stop the bleeding and not have immediate medical attention for an extended amount of time, then death is more likely, but in today's world that is less common though.

I was already thinking of using a blood thinner.

Practitioners of bloodletting cut deeply into the vein, and kept the incision open to have a stream of blood flow freely from it.