Meanings of learn leech in English

This learned leech came in his company.

1 Her words prevailed: and then the learned leech

I trust I shall see the learned leech; I have much to thank him for, and had brought some small present.

Nevertheless, I have been bred in Paris, and learned my humanities and my cursus medendi as well as some that call themselves learned leeches.

With the fractiousness of advancing age and growing infirmity, old Philipp obstinately refused to seek the assistance of any learned leech of the country round.

"Be it greater or smaller," he said, "bestow it all on the learned leech who hath given me back to the service of the Crusade."