[DuncanWaring]

Barbers once used leeches ...

Modern doctors use them, too, on occasion.

[familyop]

"Modern doctors use them, too, on occasion."

Well said! And don't forget maggots. Let's stock up on those, before everyone else buys them all out! [See contemporary politics.] ;-)

[goat granny]

the use of maggots raised in sterile conditions are also used today on wounds that will not heal...maggots only eat dead skin and flesh and can make a wound clean as a whistle...