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Jun 8, 2010 · What Baer did was aggressively experiment with maggots on patients with osteomyelitis, growing larvae on a hospital windowsill . His initial results among patients at Baltimore’s Children’s Hospital were encouraging, as formerly persistent infections cleared within six weeks.
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This biographical sketch on William S. Baer corresponds to...
- A Simple Inexpensive Method
The use of maggots in the treatment of osteomyelitis has...
- The Classic
An accompanying biographical sketch on William Baer, is...
- The Future of Maggot Therapy
In the 21st century, eighty years after William Baer...
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This Classic article is a reprint of the original work by William S. Baer, MD, The Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis With the Maggot (Larva of the Blow Fly). An accompanying biographical sketch on William Baer, is available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-010-1415-4 .
- William S. Baer
- 2011
Mar 1, 2009 · In the 21st century, eighty years after William Baer presented his groundbreaking work treating bone and soft tissue infections with live maggots, thousands of therapists around the globe have rediscovered the benefits of maggot therapy.
- Ronald A. Sherman
- 2009
During World War I, orthopedic surgeon William S. Baer recorded the case of a soldier left for several days on the battlefield who had sustained compound fractures of the femur and large flesh wounds. The soldier arrived at the hospital with maggots infesting his wounds but had no fever or other signs of infection and survived his injuries ...
In the 21st century, eighty years after William Baer presented his groundbreaking work treating bone and soft tissue infections with live maggots, thousands of therapists around the globe have rediscovered the benefits of maggot therapy.
- Ronald A. Sherman
- 10.1177/193229680900300215
- 2009
- 2009/03
Aug 12, 2015 · Dr. William Baer had treated U.S. soldiers in France during World War I and noticed that large, gaping wounds that were swarming with maggots—sometimes thousands of the creatures—didn't get infected, and the men survived.
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Mar 1, 2009 · In the 21st century, eighty years after William Baer presented his groundbreaking work treating bone and soft tissue infections with live maggots, thousands of therapists around the globe have rediscovered the benefits of maggot therapy.
