A Leech in the Nasal Cavity and Its Removal
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a note entitled 'A Leech in the Nasal Cavity and Its Removalwhich prompts me to draw attention to ? method of dealing with the situation which may not be generally known, but upon which I stumbled by accident in Bakloh some years ago. An Officer of the local regiment brought to me his spaniel which had been afflicted for some days with a leech in the nose. "e tried the water treatment, but the leech retracted up again when touched by the forceps, and nasal lavage with saline appeared to disturb the dog more than the leech! All efforts at holding the animal still having proved ineffectual, I gave him a few whiffs of chloroform, and long before the dog showed signs of going under, the leech lay limply in the animal's nostril and was easily withdrawn. I recommended this method to a friend in Burma
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