The seventeenth-century medical practice of deliberately bleeding a person was based on

A. Calvinist religious doctrine.
B. evidence that it helped in the recovery from illness.
C. the belief that a person needed to maintain a balance of different bodily fluids.
D. practices acquired from Indians.
E. scientific experimentation and observation.


Answer: C

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