PRACTICE OF BLEEDING
POPULARITY RETURNING EVIDENCE IN ENGLAND (Reecivod October 22, 6.5 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 22 "Back to the old practice of bleeding?" queried a coroner of Dr. Keith Simpson, pathologist, at an inquest after tho doctor had stated that a patient had been bled to reliei e high blood pressure. "Yes," replied the doctor. The Daily Mail's medical correspondent comments that the use of leeches to relieve an overburdened or inflamed organ such as tho liver or the heart is returning to popularity. An Auckland doctor to whom the cablegram vras referred last evening said that while bleeding was common- practice to relieve high blood pressure he had not heard of leeches being used in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22247, 23 October 1935, Page 14
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