I’m reading a lot of medical journals these days. As I was browsing Medical Magazine, dated 1833, I kept coming across lines like this one:
A quick search of the whole journal brought up dozens upon dozens of references to using leeches to cure any number of ills. Here’s just a small sampling:
For rheumatic fever:
For glossitis (an inflammation of the tongue):
For epilepsy:
And cholera:
Eye pain? Why not apply leeches to the eyelids?
For insanity and menstrual disorders? They put them *cringe* here:
And for mumps, they put them on the *wince* testicles:
Anyway, you get the idea.