nerve. Haemorrhoids eliminate toxins which produce asthma and angina : Leeches applied to the region produce similar results. Bleeding in cerebral injury is useful. At times bleeding is better than transfusion of blood. Experimental medicine crams things into the body while traditional medicine eliminates a surplus. Tasty and spiced food cures a flabby stomach. Gastric ulcer and angina are clos...

Intracavernosal injection of papaverine and phentolamine was used in 20 patients with impotence. After six months 14 patients were still using the self-injection treatment. Two patients failed to respond and two patients developed priapism which responded to venesection and metaraminol injection.

A case of primary haemochromatosis presenting as an obscure congestive cardiomyopathy in a young man is described. No other clinical evidence of haemochromatosis was present. Substantial improvement followed venesection. The cardiac manifestations of haemochromatosis are reviewed. It is suggested that the diagnosis must be excluded in any male patient with cardiac disease of undetermined aetiol...

Seven cases of erythraemia following successful renal transplantation are described. This complication was not necessarily associated with clinical evidence of rejection of the transplant, and the prognosis so far as rejection was concerned was excellent. Four patients, however, developed thromboembolic pulmonary complications, and two other patients had thrombotic episodes. Hence it is suggest...

A patient who presented with severe abdominal pain was found to have an intrahepatic haematoma complicating previously undiagnosed polycythaemia vera (PV). Full recovery followed treatment with bed rest, control of hypertension, daily venesection and 32P. The hazards of surgery in uncontrolled PV are discussed and re-emphasized.

OBJECTIVE Wet cupping is a traditional bloodletting method recommended for controlling of respiratory disease complications. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of wet cupping vs. venesection on arterial O2 saturation level of smokers. METHODS This is a randomized controlled clinical trial which started with simple sampling of smokers. After administering spirometery, participants (N = 1...