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The treatment of chronic osteomyelitis with the maggot (larva of the blow fly).
J. Bone Jt. Surg., 13, 438-75. 1931.
Larrey observed the therapeutic effect of maggots on wounds; W. S. Baer inaugurated the method of treating osteomyelitis by this means (“Baer therapy”).
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| Entry Number | #4399 |
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