# Le Régime du corps by Aldobrandino of Siena [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Manuscript \(MS Sloane 2435\) ## Commentary Le Régime du corps by Aldobrandino of Siena c. 1285 Manuscript \(MS Sloane 2435\) British Library, London In medieval medicine, illnesses thought to be caused by an excess of blood was alleviated by bleeding. The historiated initial "U" on folio 11v of this 13th-century French manuscript shows bloodletting. ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()