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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.
No the narrator of a poem is one who narrates, but the poet is one who wrote the poem
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The story depicts the death of an old man called Teofilo. His grandsons, Leon and Ken make preparation for the burial. They don'r want Father Paul to be involved with the burial process because they want to bury their grandfather in a traditional way, not in a Catholic one. However, Father Paul hopes to integrate his beliefs into theirs as much as possible by practicing the ritual described in the excerpt.
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