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Resistant Hypertension: Ending the Death Sentence

Resistant Hypertension: Ending the Death Sentence

Physicians have been fascinated with blood and the circulatory system for hundreds of years. Records dating back to early Roman times prove…

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Carter Williams
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Physicians have been fascinated with blood and the circulatory system for hundreds of years. Records dating back to early Roman times prove that bloodletting was in wide use as a treatment for disease at least 2,000 years ago, and leeches have been used in medicine for more than 2,500 years, dating back to a period when many believed that an excess of b…

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