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Flies as Medical Allies |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Joel Grossman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,564 Words, 15,812 Characters |
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In the darkness of sultry summer nights, shimmering, iridescent copper or green blowflies buzz by, sometimes stealthily depositing their eggs in wounds, a phenomenon long known and sometimes used by surgeons. Far from being a prelude to a Stephen King novel or the transmogrification suffered by the protagonist in the movie The Fly, these two-winged visitors can act as battlefield angels of mercy. Indeed, flies saved the lives of many a wounded soldier in the preantibiotic days before World War II, when the odds against surviving to tell tales of war wounds were often four to one. vbcrlfNevertheless, the idea of deliberately introducing fly larvae into wounds to promote healing, much less leaving them there when they arrive naturally, a condition known as myiasis, flies in the face of muc...
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...priate technology." Working with World Orthopedic Concern, Church and British dermatologist John Wilkinson hope that maggot therapy will help fill the large medical-care gap existing in East and Central Africa. vbcrlf"Maggot therapy is again finding its niche in modern medical practice," concludes Sherman. "Hopefully, the maggot will soon reclaim its respect and honor, if not its glory." vbcrlf
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