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Definition of Leeching
1. leech [v] - See also: leech
Medical Definition of Leeching
1. The former practice of applying leeches to the body to draw blood for therapeutic purposes. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leeching
Literary usage of Leeching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"There is, however, a remarkable difference between the direct effects of leeching
and spontaneous hemorrhage, in respect to their force ; the former ..."
2. A Treatise on the Diseases of Females by William Dewees (1854)
"Blood-letting and leeching. The means of cure consist in depletion from the ...
The leeching may be repeated in a day or two, provided the pain, heat, ..."
3. Medical and Physiological Commentaries by Martyn Paine (1840)
"... that of introducing leeching into the practice of medicine, BC 50. ...
describes the operations of cupping and leeching, very minutely, ..."
4. Lectures on fever by William Stokes, John William Moore (1874)
"TREATMENT OF THE NERVOUS SECONDARY SYMPTOMS OF FEVER—HEADACHE—Cold lotions, warm
fomentations, moderate leeching, shaving the head, cold affusion, ..."
5. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technic: A Manual of Practical Procedures by Albert Sidney Morrow (1915)
"leeching leeching may be employed for the purpose of abstracting blood from
contused or congested areas inaccessible to wet cupping. ..."
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