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Bloodletting gained its greatest fame in America through the teachings of Benjamin Rush, January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813, who had relied heavily upon this curative technique in combating the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.