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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Leeches in medical applications
- Message-ID: <17923@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 01:33:38 GMT
- References: <9212161700.AA16648@cs.utexas.edu>
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- In article <9212161700.AA16648@cs.utexas.edu> wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes:
- >
- >Where are leeches purchased? How much do they cost? Can an individual
- >buy some and keep a breeding colony of them, or are they somehow
- >"restricted" to be sold to medical professionals only with some form
- >of certification or ID required? (I suppose one could always just refer
- >to them as "live bait" to get around any such restriction... :-)
- >
-
- Just any leach won't do. Most of the ones you find in the pond won't
- bite humans anyhow. They come from England, most of them. They
- are not cheap, and I think they won't sell to laymen. Don't want
- to encourage nasty S-M games, I suspect.
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