28-08-2020, 08:16 PM
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Wot abaht use of maggots on open ulcers then? The things eat the dead flesh and so promote healing. Still very much in use.Same with leeches, still used in medicine. I inadvertently picked a couple up years ago just outside Manaus and rather foolishly just poured neat vodka on them and yanked them off unknowingly leaving the mouth bits inside. Not a good thing to do in the rain forest!
The result was an awful infection that turned into shocking cellulitis that just wouldn't heal and just kept on recurring until I returned to the UK and spent weeks in hospital cos the infection had got into my leg bone.
28-08-2020, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Wot abaht use of maggots on open ulcers then? The things eat the dead flesh and so promote healing. Still very much in use.Same with leeches, still used in medicine. I inadvertently picked a couple up years ago just outside Manaus and rather foolishly just poured neat vodka on them and yanked them off unknowingly leaving the mouth bits inside. Not a good thing to do in the rain forest!
The result was an awful infection that turned into shocking cellulitis that just wouldn't heal and just kept on recurring until I returned to the UK and spent weeks in hospital cos the infection had got into my leg bone.
No comparison, Todger.
Leeches and maggots are used externally. Nothing like a 30ft worm eating away at your intestines, IMO.
28-08-2020, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Mups
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No comparison, Todger.Leeches and maggots are used externally. Nothing like a 30ft worm eating away at your intestines, IMO.
Or did you mean.. width?
29-08-2020, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Artangel
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Mups, 30ft? That’s going to be a tight fit in a 22ft long human, small intestine!! Or did you mean.. width?
I may have underestimated according to this, Art.
" Tapeworm, also called cestode, any member of the invertebrate class Cestoda (phylum Platyhelminthes), a group of parasitic flatworms containing about 5,000 species. Tapeworms, which occur worldwide and range in size from about 1 mm (0.04 inch) to more than 15 m (50 feet), are internal parasites, affecting certain invertebrates and the liver or digestive tracts of all types of vertebrates—including humans, domestic animals, and other food animals, such as fish."
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