'Pearls' of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire
B Arabacı - Medical History, 2023 - cambridge.org
Nineteenth-century physicians increasingly favoured leeching–the placing of a live leech
onto a patient's skin to stimulate or limit blood flow–as a cure for numerous ailments. As …
onto a patient's skin to stimulate or limit blood flow–as a cure for numerous ailments. As …