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This is my brain on leeches
I just want to bring you along for a reprise of the journey of how I read Asimov Press’s Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine, because man was it fun for my brain
[in 1870,] American physician John King remarked that leeches were better suited for [delicate tissues, such as] ‘hemorrhoidal tumors, prolapsed rectum, inflamed vulva … watching that they do not creep out of reach within any of the internal cavities of the body.’ The British clinician Charles Hare wrote in his book, appropriately titled Good Remedies, Out of Fashion, that bloodletters are "no more found in the Post Office Directory, than …the Dodo or the Ichthyosaurus." and I sometimes find ants on my body at very confusing moments after I’ve been sitting outside in the morning, but at least they don’t use their posterior sucker to vault themselves forward by gripping the terrain ahead.
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