"“Glowing” Wounds: Why Civil War Soldiers Had Injuries " Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 Oct 2018 3:45 p.m. PST |
…That Shone. "Using insects – primarily maggots – to treat burns and wounds is a recognized, valid therapy. It is still used today to "debride" (clean) everything from necrotic tissue to severe burns. This method may have a repellent "yuck factor" working against it, but using critters to clean and heal wounds has been part of legitimate medicine for centuries. Even when doctors didn't know that they were helping patients, like during the years of the American Civil War (1861 – 1865), bugs have been doing their bit to increase survival rates of soldiers left wounded in the field…."
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