Show Freaks and Oddities In Science N News J The maggot treatment of bone injuries in U which larvae lanae of blowflies are placed in the wound to clear up the decayed tissue and hasten healing seems to be no new thing under the sun A search Into medical literature of the past reveals that the beneficial effect of or these larvae was suggested suggested sug sug- by a French surgeon Baron D. D J. J Lairey Larrey shortly after the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt The baron states that In Syria tho wounded were anno annoyed ed and often terrified by the appearance of the larvae arvae of the blue fly in their injuries NothIng Nothing Nothing Noth Noth- ing short of experience could convince them that these Insects so far from being injurious to their wounds promoted rath rather r their by cutting cutting cutting cut cut- ting short the process of nature and by causing the separation of the cellular which they devoured These larvae are greedy only after putrefying putre substances and never touch the parts which are arc endowed with life Ufe 0 Shocks by electricity of or even en such low v voltage U as that found in the ordinary household circuit circuit circuit cir cir- cir cir- are extremely dangerous and may cause death Within recent years medical scientists have learned that electricity under the pressure of a very low potential often otten much less than volts affects the heart hean When the current passes through one part of the heart fibrillation occurs without Interfering interfering interfering inter Inter- fering with the circulation but when the current passes through another part of the heart the cIrculation circulation circulation cir cIr- cir cir- stops at once and death usually follows in all nIl large animals f c J The question whether the brain liver blood U etc of or humans and animals that have never taken a drink of or alcoholic beverage contain ethyl alcohol has interested biochemists in the past By specially developed micro methods per cent pure ethyl alcohol has been isolated from the normal normal normal nor nor- mal brain liver and blood |