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Author : Cheryl Mays Halton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0875184081
Explores the physiology, habitat, and past and present medical uses of a variety of leeches.
Author : Robert G. W. Kirk,Neil Pemberton
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780230689
Armed with razor-sharp teeth and capable of drinking many times its volume of blood, the leech is an unlikely cure for ill health. Yet that is exactly the role this worm-like parasite has played in both Western and Eastern medicine throughout history. In this book, Robert G. W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton explore how the leech surfaces in radically different spheres. The ancients used them in humeral medicine to bring the four humors of the body—blood, phlegm, and black and yellow bile—back into balance. Today, leeches are used in plastic and reconstructive surgery to help reattach severed limbs and remove pools of blood before it kills tissue. Leeches have also been used in a nineteenth-century meteorological barometer and a twentieth-century biomedical tool that helped win a Nobel Prize. Kirk and Pemberton also reveal the dark side of leeches as they are portrayed in fiction, film, and popular culture. From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to a video game player’s nemesis, the leech is used to represent the fears of science run amok. Leech shines new light on one of humanity’s most enduring and unlikely companions.
Author : Matt Isaac
Publisher : Health by Profession
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0983633916
From Cleopatra to Demi Moore, from ancient methods to modern medicine, leech therapy has withstood the test of time; and this book is here to help you use the leech for your maximum benefit. This book will guide you as you learn more about this wonderful creature and the gifts it has in store for you...Leech Therapy: an introduction to a natural healing alternative includes: practical recommendations, professional advice, clinical knowledge, biological descriptions, and historical facts. Leech therapy can be an effective treatment for heart diseases, bronchitis, asthma, cirrhosis, constipation, hemorrhoids, diseases of the eyes, ears, throat and nose, radicular pain, allergies and many more...
Author : David Albahari
Publisher : HMH
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547549088
A “sardonic and brutal” journey into Serbia’s underground secret societies and conspiracy theories (TheIndependent). The place is Serbia, the time is the late 1990s. Our protagonist, a single man, writes a regular op-ed column for a Belgrade newspaper and spends the rest of his time with his best friend, smoking pot and talking about sex, politics, and life in general. One day, on the shore of the Danube, he spots a man slapping a beautiful woman. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later, he receives a mysterious manuscript whose contents seem to mutate each time he opens it. To decipher the manuscript—a collection of fragments on the Kabbalah and the history of the Jews of Zemun and Belgrade—he contacts an old schoolmate, now an eccentric mathematician, and a group of men from the Jewish community. As the narrator delves deeper into arcane topics, he begins to see signs of anti-Semitism, past and present, throughout the city, and he feels impelled to denounce it. But his increasingly passionate columns erupt in a scandal culminating in murder. Following in the footsteps of Foucault’s Pendulum, Leeches is a cerebral adventure and a journey into the underground worlds of secret societies and conspiracy theories.
Author : Andreas Michalsen,Manfred Roth,Gustav J. Dobos
Publisher : Thieme
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783131618917
Medicinal leech therapy has undergone a renaissance in recent years, both in terms of how well the effects of using leeches are understood,and in the discovery of new clinical applications that have resulted in remarkable outcomes. This timely book introduces the basic principles of using leeches in clinical practice, and clearly sets out the methodology and potentialapplications. Emphasis is given to those areas of medicine where scientific studies have already provided firm evidence of success -- treatment of arthrosis and pain is already benefiting from this highly effective therapy.Excellent instructions for the use of leeches cover the full spectrum of possible applications, while the encouraging new developments in research are also addressed. This valuable guide for physicians to this important therapy comes from the acknowledged experts in the field.
Author : Syed Hasan,Tanwir Alam,MD Tanwir Alam
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517784433
In this book author comprises the possible indications of leech therapy along with procedures, safety concerns, historical perspective, surgical operative standards, and contraindication of the same described in traditional system of medicine. This book covers the following titles:SN Title Page No.1 Introduction 10-132 History of Leech Therapy 14-223 Leech Therapy in Unani:Historical perspective 234 Natural History of Leech therapy 24-255 Definition of Hirudotherapy 26-286 Leech Taxonomy and Morphology 29-307 The Biology of Leech Feeding 31-328 Clinical Practice of Leech Therapy 33-359 Leech Therapy for Arthritis 36-3710 Leech Therapy for Cardio-vascular Diseases 38-4311 Leech Therapy for Alopecia 44-4512 Leech Therapy for Infantile Cerebral Palsy 46-4913 Leech Therapy for Hepatitis 50-5114 Leech Therapy for Endometriosis 52-5315 Leech Therapy for Dental Issues 54-5616 Leech Therapy for Digestive System Diseases 5717 Leech Therapy for Drug,Alcohol Detox 58-6018 Leech Therapy for Eye Diseases 61-6719 Leech Therapy for Sport Injuries 68-7120 Leech Therapy for Migraine/headaches 7221 Leech Therapy for Urological Issues 73-7422 Leech Therapy in Gynecology 75-7623 Other conditions suitable for Leech Therapy 77-8624 The Mechanics of Leech Therapy 87-9325 Safety concerns regarding Leech Therapy 94-10026 Leech therapy: Is it safe? 101-0527 The Benefits of Leech Therapy and its Effects 106-1228 Standard Operative Procedures 113-1629 Procedure of Leech therapy 117-2430 Complications 125-3031 Conclusion 131-3232 References 133-35
Author : K. H. Mann
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483224039
Leeches (Hirudinea): Their Structure, Physiology, Ecology and Embryology presents a concise account of the vast knowledge, particularly in the realm of physiology of the Hirudinea. The text provides the various aspects of the life of leeches (Hirudenea). The first three chapters are devoted to the survey of the different families of leeches and the description of Hirudo medicinalis (Medicinal leech). The physiological aspects of leeches such as its circulatory and respiratory systems, muscles, nerves, sense organs, and reproductive processes are elaborated in detail in subsequent chapters. Leech nutrition, behavior, locomotion, and the ways in which the distribution and abundance of leeches is affected by factors of the environment, both living and non-living are elucidated as well. Zoologists will find the book very useful and informative.
Author : Kenneth J. Muller,John G. Nicholls,Gunther Siegmund Stent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1936113090
In the 19th century, the medicinal applications of leeches prompted basic research into their neurobiology, reproduction, development, and anatomy; subsequently, leeches became an important model for understanding the nervous system. In this monograph, each chapter provides a narrative account of experimental work on a particular area of leech neurobiology, and explains its significance for the broader field of neuroscience. The appendices describe methods for maintaining and manipulating leeches in the laboratory and include an atlas of neurons in the leech Hirudo medicinalis. Extensively illustrated, this book is a classic in the field and is considered a "must read" for neuroscientists and those interested in leech biology. It has been out of print for many years; however, some recent inquiries have prompted us to reprint it and make it available at an affordable price.
Author : Graham C. Kearn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402029264
Many different kinds of animals have adopted a parasitic life style on the skin and gills of marine and freshwater fishes, including protozoans, flatworms, leeches, a range of crustaceans and even some vertebrates (lampreys). There is a parasitic barnacle, described first in the 19th century by Charles Darwin, fish lice that change sex and bivalve molluscs parasitic only when young. This book explores for the first time in one volume, the remarkable biology of these little known and frequently bizarre animals. The following closely interwoven themes are considered for each group of parasites: how they find their hosts, how they attach, feed and reproduce, the damage they inflict and how the host’s immune system retaliates. Based on the British fauna, but extending where appropriate to examples from North America, Australia and elsewhere, the book is essential reading, not just for the professional parasitologist, but also for anyone interested in fishes and in this neglected field of British natural history. With the enquiring naturalist in mind, terms and concepts are explained as they arise, backed up by a glossary, and the text is liberally illustrated. An introductory chapter on fish biology sets the scene and common fish names are used throughout, as well as scientific names.
Author : Cheryl M. Halton
Publisher : Silver Burdett Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0875184588
Describes the varieties, behavior, and benefits of bats and explains why people fear them.
Author : Heinz Mehlhorn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1577 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783540489948
Knowledge in the field of parasitology must be kept at a high level and up to date in order to fight a parasitosis as quickly and effectively as possible. The third edition of this, one of Springer’s renowned and authoritative Major Reference Works, contributes to these goals in several ways. First, the number of entries has been increased by about 30%. Secondly the content has been improved even more by adding additional tables and figures. Thirdly, the extensive linking between definitions and essays facilitates information within a minimum of time. More than 40 international contributors, who are well known specialists in their fields, give a comprehensive review of all parasites and therapeutic strategies in veterinarian and human parasitology.
Author : Konstantin Sukhov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983345873
For many years, practicing clinical medicine, we continue to describe and share nature's wonderful creation - medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis). And at first we are always met with shock, doubt and distrust regardless of the patient's age, intellect and profession. It is understandable, however, that both the patient and the specialist educated within the modern medical establishments find it hard to believe that some 'worms' can have significant benefit on treatment of diseases. Medicinal leeches are not an advancement in genetic engineering and nanotechnology, or some new achievement in engineering and artificial intelligence; they are not mentioned in fancy advertisements of transnational pharmaceutical companies.It is hard to believe that some annelid worms (Annelides) can help us treat severe traumas, acute otitis, artritis or panaritium, help you forget about dreadful hemorrhoids, restore the lightness in your heavy legs, and, perhaps, even help save you from the fate of a lifelong disability...This book is the further development of our project and plan to distribute our professional knowledge of Hirudotherapy (Medicinal Leech Therapy) among the Medical community and the different World nations.
Author : Rose George
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781627796385
An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don’t even know their own blood type. And for all its ubiquitousness, the few tablespoons of blood discharged by 800 million women are still regarded as taboo: menstruation is perhaps the single most demonized biological event. Rose George, author of The Big Necessity, is renowned for her intrepid work on topics that are invisible but vitally important. In Nine Pints, she takes us from ancient practices of bloodletting to the breakthough of the "liquid biopsy," which promises to diagnose cancer and other diseases with a simple blood test. She introduces Janet Vaughan, who set up the world’s first system of mass blood donation during the Blitz, and Arunachalam Muruganantham, known as “Menstrual Man” for his work on sanitary pads for developing countries. She probes the lucrative business of plasma transfusions, in which the US is known as the “OPEC of plasma.” And she looks to the future, as researchers seek to bring synthetic blood to a hospital near you. Spanning science and politics, stories and global epidemics, Nine Pints reveals our life's blood in an entirely new light. Nine Pints was named one of Bill Gates recommended summer reading titles for 2019.
Author : James Crawford,Melissa M. Ringsted
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1481939904
A teenager finds out he is the "weapon" that a race of leeches have been looking for for decades.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756516153
Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and types of worms, including leeches, earthworms, and tapeworms.