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Murder, Magic and Medicine: Blood Suckers and Flesh Eaters

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A series exploring the role that animals play in a variety of medical treatments.

Hospitals all over the UK still regularly use leeches on patients to encourage blood flow after plastic surgery.
Dr Michael O'Donnell discovers they are not the only creepy-crawlies that hospitals employ - when presented with a particularly bad wound that needs cleaning, doctors now increasingly call Upon maggots.

Contributors

Presenter:
Dr Michael O'Donnell
Producer:
Jeremy Grange
Source: Radio Times

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