BLEEDING AS A CURE.
PR ACTICE REVIVED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Cop vr» g h i. LONDON, October 22. “Back to the old practice of bleeding P” queried the Coroner ot Dr. Keith Simpson, pathologist, at an inquest after the doctor had stated the patient was bled to relieve high blood pressure. “Yes,” replied the doctor, whereupon the Daily Mail's medical correspondent comments that the use of leeches to relieve an overburdened and inflamed organ such as the liver or heart was returning to popularity.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13089, 24 October 1935, Page 3
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