infested with maggots, womans foot amputated

lostfaith · Jul 17, 2005

http://news.yahoo.com/s/wpbf/20050715/lo_wpbf/2826721

eeuuww! I thought I had read somewhere that maggots, very sterile ones, were use sometimes to help with infectons. Something about returning to old way medicine techniqes. Maybe it was leeches or something.

mysteriew · Jul 17, 2005

lostfaith said:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/wpbf/20050715/lo_wpbf/2826721

eeuuww! I thought I had read somewhere that maggots, very sterile ones, were use sometimes to help with infectons. Something about returning to old way medicine techniqes. Maybe it was leeches or something.

No you remember right. Maggots feed on decaying flesh and can clean an infected wound cleaner than a surgeon. Evidently this wound was more than the maggots could handle.

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