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This chapter studies blood where there has been great popular awareness of its importance, both ensuring it functions properly as a vital fluid for the body and due to the alarm that its presence causes if unexpected disorders occur. The different procedures to clean and thin that liquid by bloodletting are described. Diabetes, popularly known as “blood in the sugar” is covered in a section, as is anaemia. The text also considers nose bleeds and the benefit or risk that people attribute to them. The causes of and remedies used for haemorrhoids and varicose veins round off the content of this part of the work.

Hardly any information referring to the varicose veins was gathered in the surveyed locations. In Carranza (B), the interviewees only pointed out that women suffer from them more than men. In that location, it was said that care should be taken not to injure the veins as it was thought that the person could then bleed to death. In the past, for example, when women went to reap the wheat, they wore thick tights if they had varicose veins so they were not pricked by the straw.

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