As a practitioner and his assistants check the veins in her hands, Lilavati Devi stands perfectly still in the hot sun in Old Delhi. Then, armed with razor blades, the practitioner slices neatly into her skin and lets the "impure blood" drain out. Devi suffers from chronic arthritis and firmly believes that her elderly "doctor" or practitioner, Mohammed Gyas, has the skills to cure her and others through the ancient treatment of bloodletting. "Science ...
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