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rouge — 5 years ago(November 30, 2020 10:37 PM)
Fun fact- leeches are still used in modern medicine!
Despite leeches’ historic ties to medical quackery, they do have a legitimate place in modern medicine as a sort of reverse transfusion in cases of imbalanced blood circulation. While ye olde physicians thought leeches could cure epilepsy and even large bruises,
the contemporary use of leeches is mostly limited to microsurgeons who reattach body parts like fingers, toes, thumbs, ears, lips, noses, or even bits of scalp
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One of the first times leeches were used this way was in 1985 on a five-year-old whose ear was bitten off by a dog. A few days after surgeons sewed the organ back on, "it turned blackish blue from blood congestion," according to an account in The New York Times.
After failed efforts to drain the blood-filled ear with anti clotting agents and small cuts, Harvard physician Joseph Upton attached two leeches and "the ear perked up right away."
Twenty years later, in 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved leeches as medical devices for use in plastic surgery (making them, along with maggots, the first living creature the agency green lit for clinical use).
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Bee — 5 years ago(November 30, 2020 10:42 PM)
I'm all for natural, even weird medicine but I would…probably kill myself instead of using leeches lol. I saw an episode of house where they used maggots to eat away a burn victims dead skin… I just. No way, man.
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Cheeky — 5 years ago(November 30, 2020 10:50 PM)
https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/20/woman-uses-leeches-to-save-her-botched-nose-job-7739585/
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