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is a term applied by monastics of the Middle Ages to phlebotomy, which was much in fashion in those times. In some abbeys a bleeding-house, called Flebotomaria, was sustained. For details on the practices of the monastics inminution, see Fosbrooke, British A Moaachisun (Lond. 1817, 4to), page 321.