In inflammations of a more purely local character, cupping or leechingthe part immediately affected, or the parts adjacent to it, is in general more appropriate and successful.
When the pain is of long duration, leeching should be had recourse to.
In the second category are those instruments associated with leeching and cupping.
Cupping and leeching were less frequently practiced in the medieval period, although general bloodletting retained its popularity.
In fact, leeching the internal membranes enjoyed quite a vogue in the early nineteenth century.
Leeching Leeches The word "leech" derives from the Anglo-Saxon loece, "to heal.
The French popularized the practice of leeching the anus to treat inflammations of the mucous membranes of the bowel.
But cupping and leeching should only be resorted to in the treatment of grave symptoms, since obstinate hemorrhage is liable to occur from any and every point from which the cuticle has been removed.
It is only in the more robust children, who have been but little reduced by the primary disease, that leeching is, in my opinion, admissible.
Pomeroy, an experienced aurist of New York, says: "Leeching employed at the right time rarely fails to subdue the pain and inflammation.
They should be met by chloroform, cold to the head, hypodermic injection of morphia, and cupping or leeching if the face is flushed, the eyes injected, and the carotids pulsating forcibly.
Presently, Achow being on his knees in the shingle, the perfidious Leeching suddenly cocked his pistol, and fired it into Achow's right ear, so that he fell dead.
Illogically connecting him with the fall of the stone, he made for him, and, before Leeching knew there was a rattlesnake anywhere near him, bit him in the calf.
Leeching sat down on the bank and realized the position.
By the worst luck in the world a stone slipped and fell as Leeching passed by.
By this lucky accident Leeching became sole possessor of the little pile of gold which he and the defunct Achow had scraped together and placed in a cache.
Leeching and cupping require a steady hand, and ability to use the scarificator.
Leeching is sooner learned than cupping, but there is much less of both done than formerly.
Perhaps leeching and cupping ought to be substituted, in such emergencies, for bleeding from the arm.
When the inflammatory process is of a higher grade and not likely to yield to purely medicinal treatment, leeching or venesection may be employed, but should not be resorted to without urgent reason.
It has been maintained (Lassus) that the hypertrophy can be overcome by systematic compression of the tongue, by leeching the tongue, bandaging or strapping it, and forcibly maintaining it in the mouth by suitable retentive appliances.
But we'll talk on it again; for sometimes things come into my head when I'm leeching or poulticing, or such, as I could never think on when I was sitting still.
Ordinary earache—inflammation extending along the meatus externus, and confined to the lining membrane—will be relieved by leeching behind the auricle, and by assiduous and regular fomentation afterwards.
The tongue is subject to simple induration, which is totally unconnected with malignant disposition, and subsides on improvement of the digestive organs; occasionally repeatedleeching of the part accelerates the cure.
Leeches applied to the conjunctiva of the lower lid are sometimes advantageous; but leeching and scarification are more useful in the chronic stage: and the latter is injurious in acute ophthalmia.
Leeching is of little use in mammary swelling during lactation; cold and evaporating lotions seem to do harm by producing determination from the surface to the deeper parts.
Leeching or puncturing at an early period, with the view of allowing extravasated blood to escape, is useless and hurtful.
The excited action is to be combated by leeching and exhibition of calomel in small doses, with or without opium frequently repeated, so as to arrest the lymphatic effusion, which is apt to supervene.
The tumefaction following upon local treatment, and especially when leeching and counter-irritants have been employed, is sometimes, as he remarks, very perplexing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leeching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
