Questions tagged [blood-letting-leeches]
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What disease/s killed Mozart? Or was it poison? [closed]
Have scholars since determined Mozart's cause of death?
I know that there has been a swirl of mystery surrounding his death and for quite sometime poisoning by certain communities was blamed as the ...
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Are leeches still used in modern medicine (for skin-grafts, finger-grafts, etc.)?
I know in antiquity that leeches were commonly used in medicine for any and everything in a technique known as "blood-letting." But I've heard recently that leeches have a anticoagulant and blood-...
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