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Regular venesections - collecting blood for diagnosis - mean their iron counts are going down.

The British physicians had tried venesection, the medical term for bloodletting, and it had not worked—perhaps, they thought, because they tried it too late in the course of the disease.

The only treatment for this is venesection, where I have a pint of blood removed every few months.

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; Ð esp. applied to venesection.

For nobody would dare to resort to jugular venesection, as our predecessors did in the last century.