Assertion: leech's use | /r/HasProperty | questioned in mid-to-late 19th century
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text: The leech collecting industry also declined as the medicinal value of bloodletting and the use of leeches was questioned in the mid-to-late 19th century, under the influence of Rudolf Virchow's work on cellular processes and the eventual rise of the germ theory of disease.