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On revulsing blood from the lungs...did it work?
I remember reading somewhere that there were particular cases of using leeches that actually did help ameliorate the malady in question. Rare, but the article indicated that sometimes leeching did help.
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It is a wonder that the human race survived some of the things that were advocated by the best physicians available. It seems obvious that many patients must have been harmed by the widely used bleeding of patients who could ill afford to lose the blood. But until it became possible to keep accurate records of large number of patients, and analyze data with sound statistical methods, reliable conclusions were rare indeed. Look how long it took to recognize the evils of cigarette smoking.
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Just goes to show something or other. I automatically analysed revulsed as being from a verb revulse. Onelook refers to dictionary.com and Websters for revulse and they give the meaning pull back with force and ascribe it to Cowper (the poet? no dates given).
When I googled revulse and then revulsed there were about 8 or 9 times as many examples of revulsed. Using Onelook I found that revulsed is listed in AHD and Merriam-Websters as an adjective meaning "affected with revulsion". MW dates it back to 1934, but that doesn't make me like it any better.
Of course in a print dicitionary you would see the adjective revulsed if you tried to look up an almost non-existent verb revulse.
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About revulsed: Where's Dr. Sam Johnson when ya' need him?
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