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- From: wentzell@ace.acadiau.ca (LEEANN WENTZELL)
- Subject: Re: Leeches in medical applications
- Message-ID: <wentzell.116.725635257@ace.acadiau.ca>
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- Organization: Acadia University
- References: <9212161700.AA16648@cs.utexas.edu> <17923@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:20:58 GMT
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- In article <17923@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- >Subject: Re: Leeches in medical applications
- >Date: 28 Dec 92 01:33:38 GMT
-
- >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.
-
- I don't know what pond *you* frequent, but in this part of the world (
- Eastern Canada) many people keep a shaker of salt or a book of matches at
- the edge of the local "swimming hole" to quickly remove leaches. I can
- assure you that local leeches *do* in fact "bite".
- Lee Ann Wentzell "...foodless toads in
- Biology Department voluptuous chambers panting
- Acadia University crawled..."
- Wolfville, NS, CAN P. B. Shelley - Prometheus Unbound
-