who was the doctor who used maggot debridement therapy in world war i
Maggot therapy During World War I, William S. Baer, an orthopedic surgeon, noticed that a soldier left for several days on the battlefield who had sustained compound fractures of the femur and large flesh wounds and arrived at the hospital with maggots infesting his wounds had no fever or other signs of infection and survived his injuries, which would normally have been fatal. After the war Baer began using maggot therapy at Children's Hospital in Boston.[18][19]:169â€“171
Father of surgery The Arab physician Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936-1013) wrote Al-Tasrif (The Method of Medicine), a 30-part medical encyclopedia in Arabic. In the encyclopedia, he introduced his collection of over 200 surgical instruments, many of which were never used before.[1] Some of his works included being the first to describe and prove the hereditary pattern behind hemophilia, as well as describing ectopic pregnancy and stone babies.[2] He has been called the "father of surgery".[3][4]