But modern medicine is giving its reputation new life — as a tiny surgeon.
Polly Cleveland, of New York City, turned to so-called maggot therapy when she was caring for her late husband, Tom, in 2023.
“After a stay in the hospital, he came back with this terrible sore on his left heel,” Cleveland said. Later, he developed a bedsore on his buttocks. “These kinds of wounds really smell foul.”
The doctors and nurses treating her husband had never heard of using maggots for wound cleaning. Cleveland, who has a lifelong interest in bugs, found a lab established by Dr. Ronald Sherman, a pioneer of modern maggot therapy, and was able to order a shipment of maggots overnight.
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