(November 14, 2018 at 4:01 pm)Tres Leches Wrote:(November 14, 2018 at 3:45 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I won’t tell you that, because they are. Leeches have a couple of valid uses, but the only one I can recall at the moment is that they secrete a something or other that is used in clotting disorders. Trepanning is performed to relieve brain swelling.
Boru
Oh, look at that. Now I know who to go to with questions on 12th century medicine.
-Teresa
Or First Century BC.
A little graphic but it gives the idea.