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...cuts with frequent powder burns gave evidence of close fighting. There were no victims or evidence of chemical warfare. A majority of the wounds were through-and-through bullet wounds with small sharply defined point of entrance and large jagged exit. The wounds were invariably infected, many teeming with maggots. ... As noted in the World War, and in keeping with the maggot therapy for chronic osteomyelitis, the wounds when cleared of maggots presented healthy granulations and were certainly none the worse for the infestation. . . . "The weather in Manchuria was severely cold and exposures following wounds were often severe and prolonged...
Sylvia Townsend Warner (Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot) and Valentine Ackland, a new writer, protest "against the frame of mind, too common, which judges the poem by the poet." By lumping 109 poems together in Whether a Dove or Seagull without specifying which are by Poet Warner, which by Poet Ackland, they conspire to baffle lazy readers, force them to take or leave each verse on its own merits...
...maggots eat dead tissue and germs, but do not touch live flesh. This maggot habit the late Surgeon William Stevenson Baer applied to the treatment of festering wounds and bone diseases. He got astonishingly good results. Surgeons every- where are beginning to use the Baer technique...
Dentist George Clarence Dreher of Newark, N. J. pondered the use of maggots for cleaning the root canal completely of dead pulp, ordinarily a difficult procedure. Too nice to experiment in a patient's mouth, Dentist Dreher got a freshly-pulled decayed1 front tooth-he reported last week in Dental Survey-and put a fat maggot to work on the decay. The maggot was too fat to get into the root canal...
Thereupon Dentist Dreher hatched some germ-free blowfly eggs and fed the larvae for twelve hours on pig-liver. One of these tiny maggots he penned in the pulp chamber of the tooth with a light cotton plug. Three days of work killed the maggot. Another slim maggot then went to work, delved for three days, died. Then a third maggot. After nine days the tooth was cleaner than a dog's, "with the exception of a thin, hard, white secretion left on the wall of the canal by the maggot." That coating was sterile...