Re-imagining bleeders: the medical leech in the nineteenth century bloodletting encounter

Med Hist. 2011 Jul;55(3):355-60. doi: 10.1017/s0025727300005391.
No abstract available

Keywords: Animal Studies; Bloodletting; François-Joseph-Victor Broussais; Leech; Leech Craze; Medical Practice; Phlebotomy.

Publication types

  • Historical Article
  • Portrait
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bloodletting / history*
  • History, 18th Century
  • History, 19th Century
  • Humans
  • Leeches*