This is exactly right.

At a certain battle during 1917, two soldiers with compound fractures of the

femur and large flesh wounds of the abdomen and scrotum were brought into the hospital.

For seven days they lay on the battlefield without water, without food, and exposed to the weather and all the insects which were about that region.

On their arrival at the hospital I found that they had no fever and that there was no evidence of

septisemia or blood poisoning. Indeed, their condition was remarkably good, and if it had not

been for their starvation and thirst, we would have said they were in excellent condition.

When I noticed the extent of the wounds, I could not but marvel at the good constitutional

condition of the patients. This unusual fact quickly attracted my intention.

I could not understand how a man who had

laying on the ground for seven days with a compound fracture of the femur without

food and water should be free of fever and evidence of sepsis. On removing the clothing from the wounded part, much was my surprise to see the

wound filled with thousands and thousands of maggots, apparently those of the blowfly. These maggots simply swarmed and filled the entire wounded area.

The site was very disgusting, and measures were taken hurriedly to wash out these abominable-looking creatures.

Instead of having a wound filled with pus, as one would have expected,

these wounds were filled with the most beautiful pink granulation tissue that one could imagine.

These patients went on to healing,

notwithstanding the fact that we removed their friends,

which had been doing such noble work. Oh, Oh, I love it so much Aaron it's so good.

It's so good.

I can, it's such noble work.

It's such noble work.

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