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Leeches are commonly fed upon James H. Thorp and Alan P. Covich, eds., Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (New York: Academic Press, 1991), 428.
Among these are several members Roy T. Sawyer, Leech Biology and Behavior, vol. 2: Feeding Biology, Ecology, and Systematics (Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1986), 430–32.
Although the hard outer covering Thorp and Covich, Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 451–52.
Additionally, leeches were the preferred method Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein, Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), 90.
Medicinal leech use reached its zenith Ibid.
Fashion-conscious ladies “Hirudo medicinalis, Leech History, http://www.leeches-medicinalis.com/history.htm, 2006.
The Leech-gatherers take them J. G. Wood, Animate Creation: A Popular Edition of Our Living World: a Natural History, vol. 3 (New York: Selmar Hess, 1885), 598.
Like many freshwater leeches Sawyer, Leech Biology and Behavior, vol. 2: Feeding Biology, Ecology, and Systematics, 626–27.
This behavior is similar to that reported M. R. Heupel, C. A. Simpfendorfer, and R. E. Hueter, “Running Before the Storm: Blacktip Sharks Respond to Falling Barometric Pressure Associated with Tropical Storm Gabrielle,” Journal of Fish Biology 63, no. 5 (2003): 1357–63.
Leeches were also commonly used to treat strokes A. Mark Clarfield, “Stalin’s Death (or ‘Death of a Tyrant’),” Annals of Long-Term Care 13, no. 3 (March 2005): 52–54.
Summoned, some contend, up to thirteen hours Edvard Radzinsky, Stalin (New York: Doubleday, 1996), 574.
Stalin had recently initiated Ibid., 552–65.
Presumably, this became a popular measure A. Park, “The Case of the Disappearing Leech,” British Journal of Plastic Surgery 46 (1993): 543.
Leeches that specialize in larger hosts Sawyer, Leech Biology and Behavior, vol. 2: Feeding Biology, Ecology, and Systematics, 454.
Sucker attachment actually has two components Sawyer, Leech Biology and Behavior, vol. 1: Feeding Biology, Ecology, and Systematics, 358.
Similarly, other species of H. E. Müller, M. Pinus, and Uwe Schmidt, “Aeromonas hydrophila as a Normal Intestinal Bacterium of the Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus,” Zentralblatt Für Veterinärmedzin Reihe B. 27, no. 5 (1980), 419–24.
In a 1994 study, Norwegians Anders Baerheim and Hogne Sanvik, “Effect of Ale, Garlic, and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches,” British Medical Journal 309 (December 24, 1994): 1689.
In the late nineteenth century J. S. Haller Jr., “Decline of Bloodletting: A Study in 19th-Century Ratiocinations,” Southern Medical Journal 79 (1986): 469–75.
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Ecdysiast was also the term coined Joseph D. Ayd, “H. L., Where Are You? A Celebration of Henry Mencken on the Centennial of His Birth,” English Journal, 69, no. 6 (1980): 32–37.
Those of you looking Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences 205 (1979): 581–98.
Various insects and other arthropods Robert L. Usinger, Monograph of Cimicidae (College Park, Md.: Entomological Society of America, 1966), 31–32.
Finally, although an 1855 paper Bruce Cummings, The Bed-Bug: Its Habits and Life History and How to Deal with It, 6th ed., Economic Series No. 5, British Museum (Natural History) (London: Adlard and Son, Limited, Bartholomew Press, Dorking) 1949, 17.
Recently, scientist David Reed and his co-workers David L. Reed, Jessica E. Light, Julie M. Allen, and Jeremy J. Kirchman, “Pair of Lice Lost or Parasites Regained: The Evolutionary History of Anthropoid Primate Lice,” BMC Biology 5, no. 7 (March 7, 2007), doi:10.1186/1741-7007-5-7.
Monograph of Cimicidae Usinger, Monograph of Cimicidae, 1–7.
Medicinal uses for bed bugs Ibid., 7.
Quintus Serenus was another Roman Ibid.
According to Usinger Ibid.
A Treatise of Buggs John Southall, A Treatise of Buggs (London, 1730).
Southall’s interviews supported the claims Ibid., 3.
In this regard, the Yanks were Cummings, The Bed-Bug: Its Habits