Author: Rees Price (M.D.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 166
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A treatise on the utility of sangui-suction, or leech bleeding
Author: Rees Price (M.D.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Languages : en
Pages : 166
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The London Medical and Physical Journal
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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London Medical and Physical Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Leech
Author: Robert G. W. Kirk
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780230680
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Armed with razor-sharp teeth and capable of drinking many times its volume of blood, the leech is an unlikely cure for ill health. Yet that is exactly the role this worm-like parasite has played in both Western and Eastern medicine throughout history. In this book, Robert G. W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton explore how the leech surfaces in radically different spheres. The ancients used them in humeral medicine to bring the four humors of the body—blood, phlegm, and black and yellow bile—back into balance. Today, leeches are used in plastic and reconstructive surgery to help reattach severed limbs and remove pools of blood before it kills tissue. Leeches have also been used in a nineteenth-century meteorological barometer and a twentieth-century biomedical tool that helped win a Nobel Prize. Kirk and Pemberton also reveal the dark side of leeches as they are portrayed in fiction, film, and popular culture. From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to a video game player’s nemesis, the leech is used to represent the fears of science run amok. Leech shines new light on one of humanity’s most enduring and unlikely companions.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780230680
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Armed with razor-sharp teeth and capable of drinking many times its volume of blood, the leech is an unlikely cure for ill health. Yet that is exactly the role this worm-like parasite has played in both Western and Eastern medicine throughout history. In this book, Robert G. W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton explore how the leech surfaces in radically different spheres. The ancients used them in humeral medicine to bring the four humors of the body—blood, phlegm, and black and yellow bile—back into balance. Today, leeches are used in plastic and reconstructive surgery to help reattach severed limbs and remove pools of blood before it kills tissue. Leeches have also been used in a nineteenth-century meteorological barometer and a twentieth-century biomedical tool that helped win a Nobel Prize. Kirk and Pemberton also reveal the dark side of leeches as they are portrayed in fiction, film, and popular culture. From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to a video game player’s nemesis, the leech is used to represent the fears of science run amok. Leech shines new light on one of humanity’s most enduring and unlikely companions.
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged
Author: Ralph Griffiths
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
The Monthly Review
Author: Ralph Griffiths
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Bulletin
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year...
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Further Observations in the Medicinal Leech
Author: James Rawlins Johnson
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Category : Leeches
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : Leeches
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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