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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> Yup, back to the future when antibiotics don't work---as the patient 
> herein says, maggots scavenging dead flesh from a leg lesion that refuses 
> to heal, is a hell  of a lot better than sawing the leg off---another of 
> the few instances where pragmatism and common sense prevails over ideology.

Reminds me of when my young brother badly burned his arm in a race car 
crash fire. We passed him around between family members, couldn't stand the 
smell for more than a few days. Every time the dressing was changed the 
maggots were upset.