Sergey Salushchev

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Articles by Sergey Salushchev

Of Leeches and Men: The South Caucasus in the Global Trade in Medicinal Leeches in the Nineteenth Century

Supply chain disruptions, scarcity of commodities, and inflation wrought by the global pandemic are on everyone’s mind nowadays. Woes of this kind are, of course, nothing new. In fact, if you think that a shortage of microchips for your dilapidating Chevy is bad, consider the following. In the nineteenth century the world experienced a great shortage of one of the most precious commodities at the time – the medicinal leeches.

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