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...developed a method of sterilizing fly eggs in mercury bichloride solution and incubating them until they hatched into sterile maggots. The Department of Agriculture's job is to develop a method of quantity production. The flies used are the bluebottle (Calliphora erythrocephala) and the greenbottle (Lucilia caesar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Healing Maggots | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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