19th September 2004, 6:31 PM
Paralysis? Last I checked they only managed to keep your blood from clotting and numb your sense of pain, and also they can be used to get blood pumping in reattached thumbs whereas otherwise the blood would clot and the thumb would have to be removed.
I... suppose just like it's hypothetically possible for a kitten to die if it's infested with enough fleas, a human covered in enough leeches could bleed to death...
I... suppose just like it's hypothetically possible for a kitten to die if it's infested with enough fleas, a human covered in enough leeches could bleed to death...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)