Maggots in medicine
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The History of Maggots Therapy
The Aborigines of New South Wales and the Central American Indians and Mayan Indians used to soak pieces of cloth in ox blood. Viscilla Cerakata would lay eggs which hatched into tiny little larvae that would be used as a primitive dressing. All over the world we use clinically controlled species naturally infested wounds could be any maggot. You can only use a non-invasive species such as the green bottle which does not eat healthy tissue and will just clean, debride necrotic tissue. Debridement is from the French word debride which simply means to get rid of so when you've got a chronic wound there's so much dead tissue and nothing will
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