A treatise on the utility of sangui-suction, or, : Leech bleeding, in the treatment of a great variety of diseases : including the opinions of eminent practitioners, ancient and modern : with instructions for the process of leeching, and an appendix, delineating the characteristic distinction of true leeches : with directions for their management and preservation / by Rees Price.

  • Price, Rees.
Date:
1822
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the utility of sangui-suction, or, : Leech bleeding, in the treatment of a great variety of diseases : including the opinions of eminent practitioners, ancient and modern : with instructions for the process of leeching, and an appendix, delineating the characteristic distinction of true leeches : with directions for their management and preservation / by Rees Price. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    but to point out the multifarious cases wherein their use would be beneficial, and other circumstances attendant on their application; those best adapted for medicinal purposes, and the methods of preserving them. He has endeavoured to show, that if Leeches, of different species, be confined together in the same vessel, they will destroy each other; and he has like- wise ascertained that this will occur where the same species, collected from different waters, are mixed to- gether. These considerations have induced the Author to affirm, that it is due to Mr. Hunter *, to say that his assiduity and attention to this subject entitle him to the commendations of every person interested in the use Or sale of Leeches. His premises and grounds are capa- cious and airy, and well supplied with river and spring water (the occasional use of the latter, particularly in summer, he finds to cool and harden the Leech.) He has fitted up, at a very considerable expense, a range of ventilated rooms for their habitation in winter, and a Well in his grounds for their preservation in summer. In the former are arranged numerous tubs, of a very large size, covered with canvas, which afford to the Leeches confined in them abundant room for the supply of water, and for exercise. Mr. Hunter constantly attends the foreign markets, in person, during those seasons of the year proper for collecting Leeches; and, from the care with which he selects them from the Leech-gatherers, and his precautionary methods in preserving them just mentioned, his stock has been found in general extremely healthy, and so well assorted, that their application has usually been un- attended with that trouble, or their preservation with that mortality, which usually occurs where sufficient attention has not been paid to these circumstances. * Mr. Zaccheus Hunter, Importer of Leeches, 44, Webber Row, Blackfriars' Road, London.