Word: maggotism
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...penicillin. Then the engineer remembered that on a hunting trip in Venezuela he had been bitten on the ear, and later had felt a wriggling sensation inside it. Surgeon Kaye set to work to clean out what seemed like a purulent cyst, and in it he found a white maggot, almost an inch long. Two days later, he removed another maggot. The Department of Agriculture's Entomologist Richard P. Higgins identified the doctor's find as larvae of the human botfly, known to scientists as Dermatobia hominis...
...Jewish law forbids man to kill on the Sabbath-even a flea or a worm. But an exception is made in the case of head lice and maggots. Why? Because, say the ancient commentaries, these are not real creatures in the line of life but the result of spontaneous generation-the louse from man's sweat and the maggot from decaying meat. Modern science, however, does not accept spontaneous generation; hence there must be some other reason for the law's distinction. Rabbi Tendler's answer: the dividing line is between the organism which exists on living...
...while a rainstorm unmercifully keeps him from death by thirst, he imagines that he is Atlas and Prometheus. By the time the gulls have become flying lizards to him, he imagines-in the fictional season's most unpleasant metaphor for the condition of man-the last huge master-maggot of a box previously full of smaller maggots which, he has heard, are cultivated by Chinese gourmets...
...because of an early " 'feriority complexion," which he has since worked off in simple ways: settling down in New Jersey to a quiet family life (a wife and three-month-old son), playing golf, driving hot-rods at breakneck speeds. But a practical joke is still his special maggot: he once dived into a Miami millionaire's pool wearing a $200 suit just to prove he "could afford...
...baseball game taking place this afternoon at Soldiers Field, Battledore K. Pressbane will lead the forces of farce in an attempt to overthrow a 23 year string of CRIMSON victories. Ace flinger Michael "Maggot" Maggoby, 200 pound two year old, will hurl from the mound for the newshounds...