who was the doctor who used maggot debridement therapy in world war i
Maggot therapy During World War I, William S. Baer, an orthopedic surgeon, noticed that a soldier left for several days on the battlefield who had sustained compound fractures of the femur and large flesh wounds and arrived at the hospital with maggots infesting his wounds had no fever or other signs of infection and survived his injuries, which would normally have been fatal. After the war Baer began using maggot therapy at Children's Hospital in Boston.[18][19]:169â€“171