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Re: Leeches (Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Troy McSpadden (MTroy@sisna.com)
Sun, 15 Oct 95 20:13:15 GMT
In article <45n0es$dle@crcnis3.unl.edu>,
raccoon@cse.unl.edu (Joshua Hesse) wrote:
>Dave Ratcliffe (dave@frackit.com) wrote:
>: In article <1995Oct12.160919.16592@unislc.slc.unisys.com>,
"G. Merrill Dodge" <MDodge@slcpo2.slc.unisys.com> writes:
>: - idaniel@jesus.ox.ac.uk (Illtud Daniel) wrote:
>: - >No they haven't. There's a leech farm in South Wales
which is doing
>: - >very nicely thanks.
>: - >
>: - True, true. They are used in the reattachment of severed
limbs/digits. It
>: - seems that the leeches prevent the buildup of fluids at
the healing site
>: - that would otherwise eventually impede the healing and
allow gangrene to
>: - start. And since the leeches used are free of harmful
pathogens, they are
>: - useful in this regard.
>: -
>: - Still, it does seeem kind of creepy. What next? Bleeding?
>
>: Maggots to eat away necrotic tissue. It's already being
done.
>
>Don't forget the *AMAZING* Tapeworm diet pill ;)
>
>
Are you serious?!? Yuck, I'm terribly disgusted by tapeworms
to begin with...but to take a tapeworm pill?? Ewwww, no thank
you. 8<
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