Medicine Returns to Medieval Methods to Heal Sick, Injured. Rita Rubin.
by Rubin, Rita; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 75Science. Publisher: USA Today, 2004ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Biotherapy | Leeches | Maggots | Materia medica -- Animal | United States Food and Drug Adm | Wounds and injuries -- TreatmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "No question, the thought of getting up close and personal with leeches or maggots is enough to make most healthy people feel ill. But patients who've been treated with the so-called 'devices,' as well as their doctors, credit them with restoring health to tissue when high-tech medicine could not." (USA TODAY) This article discusses the use of leeches and maggots in the treatment of some wounds and injuries.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Medicine Returns to Medieval Methods to Heal Sick, Injured, July 8, 2004; pp. n.p..
"No question, the thought of getting up close and personal with leeches or maggots is enough to make most healthy people feel ill. But patients who've been treated with the so-called 'devices,' as well as their doctors, credit them with restoring health to tissue when high-tech medicine could not." (USA TODAY) This article discusses the use of leeches and maggots in the treatment of some wounds and injuries.
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