Maggot can also do surgery.
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but probably very popular as a food in Indochina. lol.
Here’s the problem: they make me scream and flail about in panic. I’d have to be very heavily sedated.
My US Army Survival Guide from way back when lists maggot therapy as a useful method to cleanse a wound of dead flesh.
Wonder if that could also lead to better treatments for autoimmune disorders?
Ok, so I’m out somewhere and wounded.
Where would I find these helpful maggots?
Especially in winter?
“Enquiring minds want to know......”
Oh MAGGOTS! I thought they said faggots.
I remember reading the tale of some mountain man, after being mauled by a bear and abandoned by his comrades, treating his wounds with maggots or some other kind of larvae. He found an old rotting log and flipped it over, rolling in the grubs underneath it to keep his wounds from becoming infected. It apparently worked, because the guy survived and made it back to civilization to get his revenge.
Gwendolyn Cazander “It’s not surprising that maggot secretions would suppress the immune system. Otherwise, the larvae would probably be attacked by the body.
Hmmmm, sure. Gota wonder just how that could work. Living munchers being attacked by dead munchables. Buzzard spit Gwen.
Rab can but wonder. Thanks for the post neverdem.
Maybe the lib-dem maggots will clean
the national wound that is “conservative”
Gop.
New type of bacterial protection found within cells
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I just realized...my face is all scrunched up.
Ping for why you don’t need a doctor...
The little fat white worms under rotting logs are known as grubs - not maggots. I think they are beetle larvae. Bears and Bear Gryls like to eat them.
There were some very important medical discoveries during the US Civil War.
One was that quartering wounded in horse stables could often achieve a 100% mortality rate. So “don’t do that”.
The other was the growing consensus for decades that antiseptics, alcohol and carbolic acid, were of great help in preventing infection, though this was only formalized just after the Civil War by Joseph Lister in Britain.
However, much evidence in the Civil War seemed to indicate just the opposite. This was because even though Union Army wounded generally had much better sanitation, clean bandages, and medicinal alcohol, their mortality rate was *higher* than for wounded rebel soldiers whose wounds were often infested with maggots.
This was because many of the battlefield wounds had been contaminated with soil rich in the anaerobic bacteria that caused the various kinds of gangrene. When buried deeply in the flesh, such bacteria were protected from antiseptics, but not maggots, that would burrow down, but only eat dead flesh, not living flesh.
For those grossed out by maggots, let me assure you that the smell of gangrene is so unique, powerful, and awful, that it is far worse than mere maggots. On the rare occasion when someone in the US gets gangrene today, it is said that “If they are put in a room on the third floor, the smell two floors away will be almost intolerable.”
It is such a rarity that physicians will come from far away just to smell that smell, so they can recognize it immediately if they ever smell it again. No one ever forgets what it smells like.
Maggot can also do surgery.
Why do I always click on these threads when I sit down for lunch?
Bet those young men that had DI’s calling them “Maggots” never realized they may one day be really valuable.
My Gram, who’s family was from Canada, told me that when she was a girl (1920 or so) her Uncle came down with a bad sickness. It was the middle of winter. Her other Uncles cut a hole in the ice of their pond and went in for leeches to put on her sick Uncle. He ended up dying.
