medicinalis

Their analysis clearly showed that the commercial and laboratory specimens were not Hirudo medicinalis, as they were labeled, but Hirudo verbana.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

Until now, the leeches were assumed to be the species Hirudo medicinalis, but new research reveals they are actually a closely related but genetically distinct species, Hirudo verbana.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

Since the time of Hippocrates and long before Carolus Linnaeus first described Hirudo medicinalis in 1758, medicinal leeches have been used in a variety of medical treatments -- some legitimate, many not.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

In the Summa medicinalis (ed. Paul Diepgen, Leipzig, 1911) of the medical author Gualterus Agilon, there are in the recipes many references to one ingredient most often called "lac mulieris puellam parturientis" (the milk of a mother giving birth to a girl), which appears almost a dozen times (pp. 101, 103, 143, 188, etc.). back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

The medidicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis feeds on vertebrate, mainly mammalian, blood.

Archive 2007-03-01 AYDIN 2007

Hirudo medicinalis is native to Europe, but its populations have been declining.

Leeches and frogs AYDIN 2007

Hirudo medicinalis is native to Europe, but its populations have been declining.

Archive 2007-03-01 AYDIN 2007

The medidicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis feeds on vertebrate, mainly mammalian, blood.

Leeches and frogs AYDIN 2007

The medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis), besides other species of leeches, are common in the waters of Syria.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

Prima dispensatio Christi medicinalis est, non judicialis -- The first coming of Christ was for the purpose of administering, not justice, but medicine.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721