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Leeches have been used in medicine for over 2,500 years. They were more popular in earlier times because it was widely thought that most diseases were caused by an excess of blood. As recently as the 19th century, leeches were used to treat everything from tonsillitis to hemorrhoids.
Thomas Eliot works multiple themes in the poem, however in general, his usage of imagery mainly represents ageing and decay. In the lines "When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table", the phrases like "sawdust restaurants" and "cheap hotels," the yellow fog, and the afternoon "Asleep...tired... or it malingers", represent decay. The character's concerns about his hair and teeth which is mentioned in the lines "Combing the white hair of the waves blown back / When the wind blows the water white and black," show the problems about aging.
Dr. V in "Helping Other to See" and the author of "A Ball to Roll Around" is similar in a way that both are trying to move past the problems of blindness. Dr. V. who is blind and the author both are a great inspiration to other people. It help builds self-confidence in spite of the disability they have.
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The lines 'at last' 'gloomy past' and 'white gleam, bright star' make me say that it is reflecting hopefulness, as opposed to what it was (I assume) like before in the story
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(i) name-calling (ii) Glittering generalities, (iii) transfer, (iv) testimonial, (v) Plain-folk, (vi) Card-stacking and (vii) Bandwagon.
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