Health, Sports & Psychology
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
...course of medical science,” said the microbiologist Milton Wainwright. It was “a therapy the demise of which no one is likely to mourn”. A tsunami of hard-to-heal wounds, however, brought this backwater back to the forefront of medicine. Wounds go through a series of stages to close and heal. After bleeding stops, white blood cells flock to the scene to break down...