Word: maggots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...