title: Re-imagining bleeders: the medical leech in the nineteenth century bloodletting encounter.
authors.affiliation: Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, The University of Manchester, Simon Building, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. robert.g.kirk@manchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: Robert G W
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Kirk
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pemberton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001815:Bloodletting / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007865:Leeches