Old school medicine

Maggots

As everyone knows, despite ever increasing scientific advances, getting decidedly old school can sometimes be the best medicine. But it takes a strong stomach to read in the British Medical Journal that recent studies have proved using larval (maggot) therapy to treat leg ulcers has similar health and cost benefits ...

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