It’s a perfect day to share my little photo collection of antique medical leech jars. I originally set out on a google image odyssey for the word exsanguination, but it turned out to be very uninteresting.

So I give you these receptacles of a bygone era, used to house the slimy little agents of bloodletting.

I think this one is my favorite:



En Francais!



No frills…



And here’s a lovely vintage leech chart:



Personally, my body does not like being without its blood. Bad things happen.

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