1930

William Baer begins using maggot therapy (successfully) to treat osteomyelitis at Baltimore Children’s Hospital (Wainwright, 110-111). This followed up on Baer’s experience in 1917 as a consulting surgeon to the American Expeditionary Force in France, when he was brought two injured soldiers left on the battlefield for a week; their wounds, to his amazement lacking any systemic infection or purulence (Manring & Calhoun).