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Sparrowhawk
08-08-04, 01:18 AM
Think of these wriggly little creatures not as, well, gross, but as miniature surgeons:

Maggots are making a medical comeback, cleaning out wounds that just won't heal. Wound-care clinics around the country are giving maggots a try on some of their sickest patients, when high-tech treatments fail. It's a therapy quietly championed since the early 1990s by a California physician who's earned the nickname Dr. Maggot.

But Dr. Ronald Sherman's maggots are getting more attention since, in January, they became the first live animals to win Food and Drug Administration approval _ as a medical device to clean out wounds. A medical device? They remove the dead tissue that impedes healing "mechanically," FDA determined. It's called chewing.

HardJedi
08-08-04, 03:36 PM
NASTY! I know it probably works and all, but I just couldn't let them be on me. Not on purpose, at any rate.

Toby M
08-08-04, 03:45 PM
If my D.I. saw these "maggots" without their covers on, he would have a fit!!!

Sparrowhawk
08-08-04, 04:20 PM
ALWAYS THE FIRST ONES TO DRAW FIRST BLOOD...


IN NAM

MillRatUSMC
08-08-04, 08:54 PM
Isn't there medical leeches?
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/bloodysuckers/images/special_2.jpg
They're use to draw blood from blood clots and other injuries.
If I'm correct...

Semper Fidelis/Semper Fi
Ricardo

Sparrowhawk
08-08-04, 10:33 PM
The gooks used to use them for that same purpose.