A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.134
A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.134
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133 Identified as *Haemadipsa ornata* Moore (WIRM VI, 58). See on this leech: M. Chandra (1991): 103–104; W.A. Harding and J. Percy Moore (1927): 284–289. Other species of *Haemadipsa* also attack human beings (M. Chandra, 1991: 99–110); the bite of *Haemadipsa moorei* Sanjeva Raj et Gladstone and that of *H. sylvestris* Blanchard is very painful (M. Chandra, 1991: 101–103, 105–106).