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- Leech_collector abstract "A leech collector, leech gatherer, or leech finder was a person occupied with procuring medicinal leeches, which were in growing demand in 19th-century Europe. Leeches were used in bloodletting but were not easy for medical practitioners to obtain. The collector would sometimes gather the leeches by attracting them to the legs of animals, often old horses. More commonplace was for the collector to use their own legs, gathering the leech after it had finished sucking enough blood. Many in the profession suffered from the effects of the loss of blood and infections spread by the leeches.Leech collectors were active across the United Kingdom, with bogs and marshes being the best hunting ground. The Lake District and Somerset Levels had particularly suitable sites. They were described by artist George Walker in his 1814 book The Costume of Yorkshire as being predominately Scottish women.The career was seasonal; leech collectors could not work in the colder months because the leeches would not be particularly active.There are obvious negative effects of being repeatedly bitten by leeches, most commonly the significant and dangerous levels of blood loss. The leeches would suck on the legs of the collector for 20 minutes or more, and even when they had finished the resultant wound continued to bleed for up to ten hours.Leech collectors were not well paid. William Wordsworth's poem Resolution and Independence, written in 1802 and published in 1807, was inspired by an encounter Wordsworth had with a "leech-gatherer". In Stanza XV he describes the hardships that the old, poor leech collector had endured:Parts of the poem have been interpreted as drawing similarities between leech collectors and poets, comparing the difficulties of finding leeches with the struggle to write poetry. The old man in the story is said to "have wisdom and fortitude that can elevate the wiser poet".".
- Leech_collector thumbnail LeechJarBedfordMuseum.JPG?width=300.
- Leech_collector wikiPageExternalLink leech.htm.
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- Leech_collector wikiPageRevisionID "637670961".
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Bleeding.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Bloodletting.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Bog.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink British_Isles.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_medicine.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Category:Obsolete_occupations.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Category:Traditional_healthcare_occupations.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink George_Walker_(painter).
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Great_Britain.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Hirudo_medicinalis.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink IUCN.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink International_Union_for_Conservation_of_Nature.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Lake_District.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Marsh.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Near-threatened_species.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Near_Threatened.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Resolution_and_Independence.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Romney_Marsh.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink Somerset_Levels.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink William_Wordsworth.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink File:LeechJarBedfordMuseum.JPG.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLink File:Sucking_leech.jpg.
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLinkText "Leech collector".
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLinkText "leech collector".
- Leech_collector wikiPageWikiLinkText "leech-gatherer".
- Leech_collector hasPhotoCollection Leech_collector.
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- Leech_collector subject Category:History_of_medicine.
- Leech_collector subject Category:Obsolete_occupations.
- Leech_collector subject Category:Traditional_healthcare_occupations.
- Leech_collector hypernym Person.
- Leech_collector type Person.
- Leech_collector type Field.
- Leech_collector type Occupation.
- Leech_collector comment "A leech collector, leech gatherer, or leech finder was a person occupied with procuring medicinal leeches, which were in growing demand in 19th-century Europe. Leeches were used in bloodletting but were not easy for medical practitioners to obtain. The collector would sometimes gather the leeches by attracting them to the legs of animals, often old horses. More commonplace was for the collector to use their own legs, gathering the leech after it had finished sucking enough blood.".
- Leech_collector label "Leech collector".
- Leech_collector sameAs m.0h56j03.
- Leech_collector sameAs Q6515766.
- Leech_collector sameAs Q6515766.
- Leech_collector wasDerivedFrom Leech_collector?oldid=637670961.
- Leech_collector depiction LeechJarBedfordMuseum.JPG.
- Leech_collector isPrimaryTopicOf Leech_collector.