Domingo Royo, Llave de albeyteria (Zaragoza, 1734): an Aragonese farrier argues against the lancet

A village animal-doctor of Aragon printed, in 1734, a case against bleeding as a routine. He complains that masters open a vein because the authors order it and not because the case indicates it, surveys the centuries and the nations that never adopted the remedy, says that it reigns in Spain alone with a sceptre nobody contests, and reports that the carcasses on the dung heaps were what made him give it up. The copy read was kept in the library of the Madrid veterinary school.