It is astounding as far back as 1895, Amerie C. Wardell M.D. recognised the abomination of violating the human body with practices even more inane than ‘blood letting’… he had to write a book about it. The preface is so revealing that history has a habit of repeating itself and that humans have very short memories or desire for ‘homework’.
https://archive.org/details/39002011127306.med.yale.edu/page/2/mode/2up