British medical journal . es in the neighbourhood of Nantes. Thereare some years when, if the season was favourable, thepeasants carried to market a day. Spain andPortugal also furnished them for a long time, but by theluiddle of last century the Peninsula had become verydepleted. But some leeches were still at that perioci beingIeceived from Tuscany and Piedmont. Perhaps the richestfields which still exist arc the marshy regions in. Hungary. In 1806 a thousand leeches in France fetched12 to 15 francs, but iu 1821 the price had risen to 150 to200 and even 283 francs. In the latter year
British medical journal . es in the neighbourhood of Nantes. Thereare some years when, if the season was favourable, thepeasants carried to market a day. Spain andPortugal also furnished them for a long time, but by theluiddle of last century the Peninsula had become verydepleted. But some leeches were still at that perioci beingIeceived from Tuscany and Piedmont. Perhaps the richestfields which still exist arc the marshy regions in. Hungary. In 1806 a thousand leeches in France fetched12 to 15 francs, but iu 1821 the price had risen to 150 to200 and even 283 francs. In the latter year they weroretailed at 20 to 50 tor 4 to 10 sous. It will be observed that, probably without the know-ledge of General Jolfre, Fiekl Marshal French, the GrandDuke Nicholas, and even without the knowledge of theGerman Emperor, the Allies aie fighting the Germans onsome of the best leech areas iu Europe—a point to whichwe shall return when dealing with the leeches of thoOrient. One \vondcr3 what the leeches think of it Fig. ni^dichialis. 0, .Vuterioisucker covering triradiate mouth; e poiuts toan annnlus midway between the male andfemale openings, s to a uephridium. u to thebladder 01 the latter; a, anus. Foui- teste.^ andfour lateral diverticula of the crop are alsoshown. gic Tjif. BmnsnTVIedicaj. Jouknal LEECHES. [Nov. 1914 There is no doubt that the medicinai leech is one of beautiful of animals. Many of its cousins areuniform and dull in colour— self-coloured, as thedrapers would call them—but the coloration of the medi-cinal leech could not be improved upon. It is a deUcionsharmony of browns and gieeus and blacks and yellows,a beautiful soft symphony of velvety browns and greensand blacks, the markings being repeated on each segment,but not to the extent of a tedious repetition. So beautifulare they that the fastidious ladies who adorned thesalons at the height of the leech mania during the begin-ning of the eighteenth century used to deck their d
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