After careful observation Schwann refused to concur in the report that the bleedings were manifestly miraculous.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
Would formidable bleedings be useful?
"The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters"
George Sand, Gustave Flaubert Translated by A.L. McKensie
Although he had been bled once already, after they took charge of the case they prescribed "two pretty copious bleedings," and finally a third, "when about 32 ounces of blood were drawn," or the equivalent of a quart.
"The True George Washington [10th Ed.]"
Paul Leicester Ford