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To: presidio9
Just read about maggots in frostbite wounds earlier today. A couple of the climbers on the French team that made the first ascent on Annapurna got maggots in their wounds on the long delayed return back to France.

From True Summit by David Roberts:

...Surrounded by doctors, the patient lay still as nurses unwrapped the dressings on his feet. The head physician offered soothing words: ''Maurice, be brave while I change this last bit of gauze.''

Suddenly Herzog heard a chorus of cries. Doctors and nurses alike jerked back involuntarily. ''They're jumping!'' someone screamed. ''They're jumping!''

The maggots that had infested Herzog's feet in Nepal had gorged on his dead flesh. Now, each one as thick as a pencil, at the moment of release from their prison of gauze, they leapt into the air in every direction....

14 posted on 01/02/2004 2:32:27 PM PST by elli1
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Check out such diverse matters as 'Grizzly Adams' and Spec Forces ad hoc medicine. Maggots have been used for years. These are now specially bred and sterile for the purpose described. No problem, once you get past the image! There is a balance in nature that we do our best to upset! Spiders web poultice anyone?
15 posted on 01/02/2004 2:50:07 PM PST by 5050 no line
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