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
Karl Landsteiner Karl Landsteiner, ForMemRS,[1] (14 June 1868 â€“ 26 June 1943[2]) was an Austrian biologist, physician, and immunologist.[3] He distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and identified, with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor, in 1937, thus enabling physicians to transfuse blood without endangering the patient's life. With Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper, he discovered the polio virus in 1909. He received the Aronson Prize in 1926. In 1930, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was posthumously awarded the Lasker Award in 1946, and has been described as the father of transfusion medicine.[4]