Listening: Why maggots are a medical marvel

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Listening:
Why maggots are a medical marvel

Why maggots are a medical marvel

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Why maggots are a medical marvel;

answer the following questions:

1. What do Genghis Khan and the NHS have in common?
2. Which stage is the larva stage?
   
3. What was the medical use of maggots?
   
4. Which people used maggots as medicine before it became known in mainstream medicine?
   
5. Who was the first western European to use maggots as medicine?
   
6. Which invention killed the use of maggots as medicine?

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

1. What do Genghis Khan and the NHS have in common?

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

1. What do Genghis Khan and the NHS have in common?

         the use of maggots as medicine

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

     2. Which stage is the larva stage?

 

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

     2. Which stage is the larva stage?

         maggots

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

    3. What was the medical use of maggots?

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

    3. What was the medical use of maggots?

          Eating dead and decaying tissue

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

    4. Which people used maggots as medicine before it became            known in mainstream medicine?

         

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

    4. Which people used maggots as medicine before it became            known in mainstream medicine?

         Aboriginals, the Hill People of Northern Myanmar, Mayans

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

    5. Who was the first western European to use maggots as                    medicine?

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

    5. Who was the first western European to use maggots as                    medicine?

         John Forney Zacharias

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

     6. Which invention killed the use of maggots as medicine?

Why maggots are a medical marvel;

     6. Which invention killed the use of maggots as medicine?

           Penicillin