How Did Doctors Treat The Four Humours?
How Did Doctors Treat The Four Humours? Humoural Treatments Many treatments involved trying to restore the balance of the Four Humours. Blood-letting (phlebotomy): Methods including cupping, leeches and cutting a vein. Purging: Patients were given emetics (to make them vomit) or laxatives (to empty the bowels). How did medieval doctors use body humors to treat?