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Note on Leeches sent by Dr E. W. G. Masterman from Palestine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Extract

These specimens were preserved in alcohol and contained in three bottles a, b and c.

(a) contained 1 large and 47 small leeches “out of infested springs at Safed, Palestine.”

(b) contained a leech “extracted from pharynx of an Arab of Jerusalem.”

(c) contained a leech which had been removed, by means of laryngeal forceps, from the vocal cords of a young peasant in Jerusalem.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1908

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