[Sca-cooks] Drakey and Pennsic

[Jones, Craig]

>
> No. Not unless the cicada was dead. Even then they might have some
> trouble with the shell. Leeches have regained some popularity in
> modern medicine because they can be a good way to get rid of dead,
> gangrenous tissue without harming the tissue that is still alive.

Not quite right.  They're using maggots to eat dead tissue, the leeches
are being used to treat surface blood clots and haematomas.  Oh, and
they are trialling polar bears to keep cantankerous patients who argue
with nurses in line :)

Drakey.