The use of leeches is a blood-thirsty practice that's been helping us heal for millennia. Medicine has moved on since they were 'used like aspirin' to treat conditions like obesity, but there is still a place for them today.
Knee-deep in murky water, with nothing but his trusty dungarees and a net, Brian Woodbridge is searching for something special.
Near the farming town of Echuca, on the border of Victoria and New South Wales, Brian breeds leeches for medical use. For thousands of years, bloodletting, or phlebotomy, has been a feature of medicine and the quest for health, with the practice once thought to help everything from seizures to headaches.
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