S.K. Livingston and the maggot therapy of wounds

Military Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 296-300

  Graner, John Leo ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ART; ARTICLE; FLY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INJURY; LARVA; MILITARY MEDICINE; UNITED STATES; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LARVA; MILITARY MEDICINE; PORTRAITS; UNITED STATES; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0031110104     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/162.4.296     Document Type: Article

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