{"id":958,"date":"2015-09-09T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T22:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:41:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:41:24","slug":"maggot-therapy-seven-debridements-for-seven-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"Maggot Therapy: Seven Debridement&#8217;s for Seven Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/health.howstuffworks.com\/medicine\/modern-treatments\/maggot-therapy.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/10\/Therapielarven_im_BioBag.jpg\/157px-Therapielarven_im_BioBag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maggots (small brown dots) in BioBag (left) , ready for work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During World War I, an American surgeon named William Baer noted that the maggot-ridden wounds he found on some soldiers looked surprisingly healthy, showing fewer signs of inflammation or infection. Baer&#8217;s observation was really a rediscovery of the medical value of maggots, a quality known to Napoleon&#8217;s Army doctors and probably used by civilizations as far back as the ancient Maya.<\/p>\n<p>Today, doctors use the creepy crawlies to stem infections, speed healing and save money, particularly in cases of chronic wounds like diabetic foot ulcers. Ask your doctor if medical maggots are right for you \u2013 but first read<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/health.howstuffworks.com\/medicine\/modern-treatments\/maggot-therapy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Maggot Therapy Works<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During World War I, an American surgeon named William Baer noted that the maggot-ridden wounds he found on some soldiers looked surprisingly healthy, showing fewer signs of inflammation or infection. Baer&#8217;s observation was really a rediscovery of the medical value of maggots, a quality known to Napoleon&#8217;s Army doctors and probably used by civilizations as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=958\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maggot Therapy: Seven Debridement&#8217;s for Seven Brothers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,67],"tags":[1108,1107,1106,1109,23,1077,25,1110,68,437,1105],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-history","category-medicine","tag-debridement","tag-diabetes","tag-fly","tag-granulation","tag-insects","tag-mrsa","tag-nature","tag-neuropathy","tag-pathology","tag-world-war-i","tag-wounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}