De motu cordis
by Harvey, William · first published 1628
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It was about 300 years from William Harvey's publication of his insights into the circulation of the blood before bloodletting fell out of common use. De Motu Cordis was published in 1628 - 'An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings'. The last medical text recommending palliative bloodletting was published in the 1920's (iirc). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey#De_Motu_Cordis…
on “A Cure for Wellness” ↗Even speakers of more common languages like English used Latin for science. Newton wrote the Principia in Latin and William Harvey wrote De Motu Cordis (the book that showed that the heart was a pump that circulated blood) in Latin, for example.
on “Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't” ↗