THE HEALING POWER OF MAGGOTS The healing power of maggots is not new. Human beings have discovered it several times. The Maya are said to have used maggots for therapeutic purposes a thousand years ago. As early as the sixteenth century, European doctors noticed that soldiers with maggot-infested wounds healed well. More recently, doctors have realized that maggots can be cheaper and more effective than drugs in some respects, and these squirming larvae have, at times, enjoyed a quiet medical renaissance. The problem may have more to do with the weak stomachs of those using them than with good science. The modern heyday of maggot therapy began during World War I, when an American doctor named William Baer was shocked to notice that two soldiers who had lain on a battlefield for a week while their abdominal wounds became infested with thousands of maggots, had recovered better than wounded men treated in the military hospital. After the ...
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Hello, Allow me to introduce my self. My name is Muhammad Faris Ruswandi. You can call me Faris.I am 18 years old. I am the first of three children. I was born in Pontianak, July 27, 1999. My father, Mr. Ruswandi is an employee on a company. My mother, Mrs. Yulisnar is a house wife mother . For now, my family and I live on jalan husin hamzah, komplek pilar emas 1 b23, Pontianak. I was studied at 6 school, SDN 07 Sintang, MIN teladan Pontianak, SDN 04 pleihari, SDN 09 Pontianak, MTsN 1 Pontianak, and SMAN 7 Pontianak. The reason why I have studied at 4 different elementary school is my parent’s job. But my family decides to stay at Pontianak when I was junior high school. I will tell you a little bit of something I like. My hobby is speech. I like to put on my opinion to other people. M...