Hostname: page-component-6898cfcb55-zsp5v Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-12T04:22:11.146Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Note on Leeches sent by Dr E. W. G. Masterman from Palestine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

W. A. Harding
Get accessRights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

These specimens were preserved in alcohol and contained in three bottles a, b and c.

(a) contained 1 large and 47 small leeches “out of infested springs at Safed, Palestine.”

(b) contained a leech “extracted from pharynx of an Arab of Jerusalem.”

(c) contained a leech which had been removed, by means of laryngeal forceps, from the vocal cords of a young peasant in Jerusalem.

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 1908, pp. 282 - 283
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1908

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Savigny, J. C. (1820). Système des Annélides, in Description de l'Égypte…publié … par les ordres…Napoleon le Grand. Paris. Histoire Naturelle, Tom. I. Ibid. Planches, Tom. II.Google Scholar
Blanchard, E. (1891). Courtes notices sur les Hirudinées, 1, Bull, de la Soc. Zool. de France, XVI. p. 218.Google Scholar
Blanchard, R. (1894). Hirudinées de 1'Italie continentale et insulaire. Boll. Mus. Zool. Univ. di Torino, IX. p. 42.Google Scholar