Medicinal leeches _ Hirudo medicinalis _ normally make their home in fresh water.
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It's appropriate; the Hirudo is the top of the line in the leech world.
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Its name was coined from the minute leech generally known as " tungaw " of the Hirudo family.
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Leeches, such as the " Hirudo medicinalis ", have been historically used in medicine to remove blood from patients.
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Leeches U . S . A . ships 20, 000 Hirudos worldwide each year, although the company won't discuss exact sales figures.
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He delivered the first of his many papers on 7 May 1793, on " Three New Species of Hirudo " ( " Linn.
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He gave his name to the 60 micrometer-diameter Retzius cells in the central nervous system of the leech ( " Hirudo medicinalis " ).
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He phoned Biopharm, a company in Swansea, Wales, owned by zoologist Roy T . Sawyer, who breeds Hirudo on the world's only leech farm.
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Only one of the world's 650 species qualifies : The Hirudo Medicinalis, a specialist sporting 300 tiny teeth laid out in the shape of a Mercedes hood ornament.
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For well over 2, 000 years, humans have employed Hirudo for bloodletting, a practice thought to restore balance to the body's humors and heal everything from headaches to hemorrhoids.
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