> Interesting you mention leeches. They are synonymous with medical
> quackery in most everyone's minds, but the New Yorker ran a terrific
> little article last year about how medical science is discovering that
> it has absolutely nothing to beat the ability of leeches to
> clean/cauterize and help heal wounds of a certain type.
Yes. I saw something several years ago about them being planted on the ends of reattached fingers to encourage blood flow through the reattachment points, making the blood vessels hook up again.
Nothing about rebalancing humors, though.
-- Andy