Mark: The breadth of your knowledge astounds me, and to top it off you spring the "maggot cure" on us! Certainly not one of the more "mainline" bits of medicine, but an important one. The use of maggots in your story is accurate, and the story would not be improved with this added feature, but there is another way in which the maggots help the healing process: as they munch on the dead flesh, they exude a cell proliferant (sp?) which spurs the healthy cells to reproduce, filling in the voids where the dead cells were. (Howz that for a run-on sentence") Google "alantoin" for more information. Ciao. ==L==
