Sangraʹdo (Dr.)

in the romance of Gil Blas, prescribes warm water and bleeding for every ailment. The character is a satire on Helvetius. (Book ii. 2.)

“If the Sangraʹdos were ignorant, there was at any rate more to spare in the veins then than there is now.”—Daily Telegraph.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.