It is thought that what made him better was not letting his blood and that Rasputin insisted on quiet prayer and contemplation (basically lots of bed rest and people not hovering over him).
Eugene Botkin did not use bloodletting at all. Alexei was so frail he almost died when they cut the umbilical cord. They knew that the problem was that he would not stop bleeding. As bad as medicine was in that era, no one was dumb enough to think that the solution to a child not clotting and therefore bleeding a lot was to bleed him.
It is thought that what made him better was not letting his blood and that Rasputin insisted on quiet prayer and contemplation (basically lots of bed rest and people not hovering over him).
Eugene Botkin did not use bloodletting at all. Alexei was so frail he almost died when they cut the umbilical cord. They knew that the problem was that he would not stop bleeding. As bad as medicine was in that era, no one was dumb enough to think that the solution to a child not clotting and therefore bleeding a lot was to bleed him.
Makes sense. Yet another L for the Revolutions podcast on the Russian Revolution.