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Leeches Used As Hemorrhoid Cure
By Dakota
Created Sep 30 2002 - 5:51pm
An Albanian man they call the "doctor" is illiterate. His day job is to clean the
public toilet [1] in Berat, Albania. In the summer, however, Kujtim Selami sells leeches for a living. In this poverty-stricken country, folks of all kinds knock on Kujtim's door to have leeches applied where their bodies ache, hoping that the worm-like creatures will suck out the "bad blood." Some local folks use the leeches to cure hemorrhoids, but the report doesn't indicate where they apply them. Talk about high-tech medicine!
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[1] http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=OddNews&storyId=533524