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since leeches feed by sucking the blood out of their hosts.......they can be used in quantity to suck impurities or toxins out
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What is leeches relationship to man?
Leeches are known as parasites but they can be useful in medicine. After surgery, some doctors use leeches to prevent dangerous swelling near a wound. Also, leeches make a useful chemical that people can use.
Are leeches endangered?
Most leeches are blood sucker hence bad but they are used in Alexandrian school of Medicine for treatment .
What types of medicine were in use in 1850?
leeches guy
How are leeches used for medicine?
they are used for people with high blood presure.
What did Victorians use for medicine?
They used leeches to suck out all of the diseases they have got.
What medicine did Victorians use?
They used leeches to suck out all of the diseases they have got.
How where leeches use in the middle ages for medical reasons?
Leeches were used as part of the bleeding process and to clean wounds. Modern medicine has found that the leech actually does secrete a chemical into a wound that helps it heal and some doctors have started to use leeches.
Why do medicinal leeches not feed on mammals?
Humans are mammals. How could they be used in medicine on humans, if they won't feed on mammals.
What did the Victorian public think of leeches as medicinal?
The use of leeches in medicine dates 2,500 years, when they were used for bloodletting in ancient India An imbalance in the proportions in the four humors; blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile, was believed to cause ill-health. The practice of bloodletting with leeches was believed to correct it.
How is the bark of a tree useful?
It can be used for medicine.
Why do the properties of silver make it less useful in medicine?
as it is costlier . Less useful than what?
What is the adherence of a cell?
The capsule can be useful in medicine because
