11.03.2006

LEECHES ARE BACK.

Ask your friends. Ask your doctor. Once thought to be effective, then thought to be ridiculous, the use of leeches to treat medical patients is now seen as legitimate. To be honest, the article I'm referencing is over a year old. But I'm not a doctor and when someone said that leeches are being used as medicine again, I didn't believe it. But I'm here to tell you, leeches are back!

Not only are they back, but the FDA has declared them (along with maggots) as the first live medical devices. That is outstanding. To read the old-ass article I'm referencing, click here:

leeches are back

There is a picture at the bottom of the article of maggots "treating a wound" that very well could make you throw up. Good luck.

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