That would be Hippocratic medicine. This was one of the medical practices that doctors used in medieval times. It consisted of the four humors which had originated from the Greek elements of the universe which were: fire, water, air, and earth. Each humor consisted of two of the for qualities: hot, cold, wet, and dry. The physicians thought blood was well... blood but it had a little of the other three humors in it.
All of the humors were said to be made by organs. One of the organs that made a humor was the liver. The liver was said to have made blood; which had many different humors in it. Then what I thought was weird was that they thought that blood was eaten by other parts of the body. So instead of circulating it was always created new every single time.
The blood being eaten by other parts of the body is gross. But was hippocratic medicine the main practice.
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