[Sca-cooks] Drakey and Pennsic

[Stefan li Rous]

Drakey corrected me with:
>> 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 :)

Oops. Yes, you are correct. Both of these treatments using maggots
and leeches are covered in the book I mentioned.

So, I take it you have experience with these trained polar bears? You
mentioned experiences with a lot of other unusual critters. :-)


Stefan, the confused.

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