British medical journal . in the new war area, in southernEurope, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt and tho southern landsof Asia, two genera of leeches which are indeed not thefriend but the enemy of man, especially of tho soldier,abound. The first of these two is Limnatis niloiica (Sav.), and itis from Savigny that I have stolen the picture of thisspecies. It is a leech of considerable size, attaining alength of 8 to 10 cm., and its outline rather slopes to theanterior end. The dorsal surface is browuish-grcen withsix longitudinal stripes, and the ventral surface is is a fresh-water leech and
British medical journal . in the new war area, in southernEurope, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt and tho southern landsof Asia, two genera of leeches which are indeed not thefriend but the enemy of man, especially of tho soldier,abound. The first of these two is Limnatis niloiica (Sav.), and itis from Savigny that I have stolen the picture of thisspecies. It is a leech of considerable size, attaining alength of 8 to 10 cm., and its outline rather slopes to theanterior end. The dorsal surface is browuish-grcen withsix longitudinal stripes, and the ventral surface is is a fresh-water leech and it occurs from the AtlanticIslands, the Azores and the Canaries—its western limit—all along the northern edge of Africa until it reaches Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Armenia, and Turkestan, where itachieves its uttermost eastern boundary. This leech livesiu stagnant water ; especially does it congregate in drinking-wells—the wells so often mentioned in the New Testa-ment. Iu the Talmud (Abudah , 17i) an especial.
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