Such wholesale depletion as this, except with avowed homicidal intent, is quite unknown in these days; though I once saw the noted French surgeon, Lisfranc, in a fine Phlebotomizing frenzy, order some ten or fifteen patients, taken almost indiscriminately, to be bled in a single morning.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
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I remember his ordering a wholesale bleeding of his patients, right and left, whatever might be the matter with them, one morning when a Phlebotomizing fit was on him.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)