A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.129

v2.c33.129

128 See on the Persian version of this chapter in the *Ma'din al-Shifā'*: M. Azeez Pasha (1971): 132–134. The subject is not separately dealt with in the *Carakasaṃhitā* (see Cakra ad Ca. Ci.21.68cd–70). Compare Kalyāṇakāraka 21.35–51; Pālakāpya's Hastyāyurveda, Uttarasthāna 34. See on the history of the use of leeches in medical practice: A.E. Shipley's Historical Preface to W.A. Harding and J. Percy Moore (1927). See on the medicinal leech (*Hirudo medicinalis*): K.H. Mann, 1962: 5–21.