OT:analog sound and leeches

[Bret <echoplex@yahoo.com>]

Dave wrote:
>It is also pseudo-scientific bullshit that should have >been tossed
out when doctors stopped using leeches.

Dave, sorry to burst your analogy but leeches are still used by the
established medical community:

"Recently, a team of surgeons used leeches to save the re-attached
thumb of a patient, which was swollen so badly that normal circulation
could not resume. The leeches fed, the swelling went down, and fresh
blood flowed. "Used" leeches are dunked in alcohol and incinerated.
Acceptance is high, particularly among patients who, after leeching,
went home with fingers, ears or thumbs intact."

http://www.thriveonline.com/health/Library/CAD/abstract19705.html

The leeches secrete anti-coagulating chemicals that assist the flow of
blood to re-attached limbs or digits.

I have also heard of using maggots for gangrene infections due to
their secretion of an antibiotic substance.

bret





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