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A caricature of a physician prescribing leeches for a weak, bedbound woman. The first recorded use of leech therapy was 3,500 years ago in Ancient Egypt. [11] The next recorded uses of leeches in medicine come in the last few centuries BCE, by the Greek physician Nicander in Colophon [5] and in the ancient Sanskrit text Sushruta Samhita. [12]
Leeches have been used in medicine from ancient times until the 19th century to draw blood from patients. In modern times, leeches find medical use in treatment of joint diseases such as epicondylitis and osteoarthritis, extremity vein diseases, and in microsurgery, while hirudin is used as an anticoagulant drug to treat blood-clotting disorders.
Loehmann's was an American retail company which started as a single store in Brooklyn, New York and grew to a chain of off-price department stores in the United States.The chain was best known for its "Back Room", where women interested in fashion could find designer clothes at prices lower than in department stores.
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Charming Shoppes was founded in 1940, it went public in 1971, [3] and was ranked 927th on the 2012 Fortune 1000. [4] On May 2, 2012, Ascena Retail Group, the parent company of Dressbarn, announced that it would acquire Charming Shoppes with a $900 million transaction through a combination of cash in hand and $325 million of borrowings from credit facilities.
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Hirudo is a genus of leeches of the family Hirudinidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. [2] The two well-accepted species within the genus are: [3] Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758; Hirudo nipponia Whitman, 1886
A jar for keeping medicinal leeches Hirudo medicinalis, a medicinal leech, attached to the skin. A leech collector, leech gatherer, or leech finder was a person occupied with procuring medicinal leeches, which were in growing demand in 19th-century Europe. Leeches were used in bloodletting but were not easy for medical practitioners to obtain ...