Re: Leeches (Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))

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In <ACA58D119668339DA@cara.demon.co.uk>, peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) writes:
>In article <DGEtqH.CH6@frackit.com>,
>dave@frackit.com (Dave Ratcliffe) wrote:
>
>>Maggots to eat away necrotic tissue. It's already being done.
>
>Has been for a long time. I was talking to an army medical officer who
>served in a neurological unit in Italy in 1943/44.
>...
Even longer than that. The benefits of maggots were observed in the first world war.
I'm sure that the senior thesis I ran across at Reed College detailing an investigation
of the subject dated from Between The Wars. This lead is provided free of charge
to any interested scholars.

Dan Drake
dandrake@netcom.com

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