and.......erm.......wonderful doctors?!
Maggots have been used for years in healing.
Written records have documented that maggots have been used since antiquity as a wound treatment.There are reports of the successful use of maggots for wound healing by Maya Indians and Aboriginal tribes in Australia.
There also have been reports of the use of maggot treatment in Renaissance times. During warfare, many military physicians observed that soldiers whose wounds had become colonized with maggots experienced significantly less morbidity and mortality than soldiers whose wounds had not become colonized.
These physicians included Napoleon's surgeon general, Baron Dominique Larrey, who reported during France's Egyptian campaign in Syria, 1798–1801, that certain species of fly destroyed only dead tissue and had a positive effect on wound healing.
Written records have documented that maggots have been used since antiquity as a wound treatment.There are reports of the successful use of maggots for wound healing by Maya Indians and Aboriginal tribes in Australia.
There also have been reports of the use of maggot treatment in Renaissance times. During warfare, many military physicians observed that soldiers whose wounds had become colonized with maggots experienced significantly less morbidity and mortality than soldiers whose wounds had not become colonized.
These physicians included Napoleon's surgeon general, Baron Dominique Larrey, who reported during France's Egyptian campaign in Syria, 1798–1801, that certain species of fly destroyed only dead tissue and had a positive effect on wound healing.