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If a patient has an area with poor circulation (like after a reattachement of a severed body part) a leech will first draw blood through that part, and then the anticoagulants in the leech's saliva will help keep the blood flow up even after the leech has fed.
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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.
What hospitals treat casualties of mustard gas?
Well nobody there were not really hospitals available people would usually die from gas but they did try and use leeches to suck out the poison but that just made it worse.
Which pronoun to use to replace bloodsucking monsters?
Us
Do they really use maggots and leeches nowadays in the NHS?
Yes it is true that the NHS really use Maggots and Leeches to heal ope wounds. Also I think it's discusting and they shoul just do the modern way and do the operation.
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.
Do leeches eat leeches?
Leeches are from the subclass Hirudinea and a kind of segmented worm but differ in significant ways. Leeches eat a prey on small invertebrates, and they use their interior suckers to feed on their host.
Do farmers use trigonometry?
Well, if Edward Cullen the bloodsucking vampire can use trigonometry. Then I am asuming farmers can as well.
What countries still use leeches to cure sickness?
the united states uses leeches to reattach appendages
What animals use mutualism in lakes?
leeches
What precautions must be observed in the medical use of leeches?
It is important to use only leeches that have been raised in the laboratory under sterile conditions in order to protect patients from infection. Therapeutic leeches belong to one of two species
What types of medicine were in use in 1850?
leeches guy
What tools did mideival doctors use?
Leeches and lances.
