[OE. blód lǽtere (see prec.).] He who or that which lets blood.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, Voc., 117. Flebotomarius, blodlætere.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 40. Bloode latare.
1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1653), 19. I have seen the like once done by an ignorant blood letter.
1840. Hood, Up the Rhine, 10. It’s a self-acting blood-letter.
