[74] Some of these studies are cited in B. M. Randolph, “The Bloodletting Controversy in the Nineteenth Century,” Annals of Medical History, volume 7 (1935), page 181.
[75] Quotation cited by Lester S. King, “The Blood-letting Controversy: A Study in the Scientific Method,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, volume 35 (1961), page 2.
[76] Martin Kaufmann, Homeopathy in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971), pages 1-14. Other references on the decline of bloodletting include: Leon S. Bryan, Jr., “Blood-letting in American Medicine, 1830-1892,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, volume 38 (1964), pages 516-529; B. M. Randolph, op. cit. [note [74]], pages 177-182; James Polk Morris, “The Decline of Bleeding in America, 1830-1865” (manuscript, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas), 11 pages.
[77] Henry I. Bowditch, Venesection, Its Abuse Formerly—Its Neglect at the Present Day (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1872), pages 5, 6.
[78] W. Mitchell Clarke, “On the History of Bleeding, and Its Disuse in Modern Practice,” The British Medical Journal (July 1875), page 67.
[79] Henry Lafleur, “Venesection in Cardiac and Arterial Disease,” The Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, volume 2 (1891), pages 112-114.
[80] See, for example, John Reid, “Bleeding,” Essays on Hypochondriasis and Other Nervous Affections (London, 1821), essay 22 page 334.
[81] Austin Flint, A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, 3rd edition (Philadelphia, 1868), page 150.
[82] Martin Duke, “Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease, Polychthenic and Phlebotomy—Rediscovered,” Rhode Island Medical Journal, volume 48 (1965), page 477.
[83] Samuel Levine, Editorial, “Phlebotomy, An Ancient Procedure Turning Modern?,” Journal of the American Medical Association (January 26, 1963), page 280.