Invocation Ritual, Destruction Ritual and a Bloodletting Ritual. Other bodily remedies in general use included purges, bloodletting and whipping. Grateful Spaniards rejoiced to think that decades of North African bloodletting and recriminations were over. Fevers required copious amounts of bloodletting. Lintel 25 depicts one of the bloodletting rituals. He recommended other treatments, including purging and bloodletting, and published his theories. The process includes castration, bloodletting, and special rituals. There was also a room for bloodletting and purging. Hunter heavily researched blood while bloodletting patients with various diseases. Egyptian burials have been reported to contain bloodletting instruments. Thus, the proposed surgical intervention for psychotic or manic behavior was bloodletting. Film critics have taken note of the film's extreme violence and "slow-motion bloodletting". The execution shocked the aristocracy of Europe, who still remembered the bloodletting of the Revolution. Vessels used during bloodletting ceremonies, depict the Vision serpent. Lucius was better after three days' fasting and a bloodletting.