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Wales’s Trade in Leeches and Maggots

39 points by sohkamyung 4y ago

basic612 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20221124200758/https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/11/24/waless-trade-in-leeches-and-maggots https://web.archive.org/web/20221124200758/https://www.econo...
Cilvic 4y ago
I clicked expecting this to be about _whales_ having barter trade of leeches and maggots. Might be related to playing Subnautica.
jph 4y ago
Wales medicine is wonderful and can make you feel like you're visiting Tolkien's Middle Earth, because of the appreciation of folk remedies, herbal treatments, fungi supplements, and more. Healers can recommend tonics, tinctures, barefoot walking in the woods, cold river plunges, and hot water bottles. It turns out that many of the Wales natural approaches do align with westernized medical research, and often are available at a fraction of the price of westernized treatment.
- guntherhermann 4y ago
  > Wales ... can make you feel like you're visiting Tolkien's Middle Earth North Wales, perhaps. Snowdonia is beautiful, but have you ever been to Cardiff on a Saturday night?
  - RobotToaster 4y ago
    >have you ever been to Cardiff on a Saturday night? A little like Mordor?
  - jph 4y ago
    Ha! I'm coming for New Year's week. Any suggestions? :-)
- 543g43g43 4y ago
  >Wales medicine is wonderful and can make you feel like you're visiting Tolkien's Middle Earth What? I don't know where you ended up in Wales, but I live in a regular, city-like part of Wales and I can tell you that the healthcare is awful.
  - jph 4y ago
    I've experienced Wales healthcare in the west, in Sir Gaerfyrddin, Aberteifi, Aberaeron, Aberystwyth, Eryri. Good luck today at the World Cup! :-)
Isamu 4y ago
>Like leeches, maggots have a long history in treating wounds. They are thought to have been used by the Mayan tribes of Central America and Aboriginal Australians. Their first recorded use by a doctor was during the American civil war. More from here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy >The first documented therapeutic use of maggots in the United States is credited to a second Confederate medical officer Dr. J.F. Zacharias, who reported during the American Civil War that: "Maggots in a single day would clean a wound much better than any agents we had at our command ... I am sure I saved many lives by their use." He recorded a high survival rate in patients he treated with maggots.
- neilv 4y ago
  As children, in Outdoor School, we were taught that if you're lost in the woods with a wound, and maggots get into it, that's good, because they'll clean the tissue that would otherwise cause worse problems, so you should say "I love them there maggots."

39 points by sohkamyung 4y ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20221124200758/https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/11/24/waless-trade-in-leeches-and-maggots https://web.archive.org/web/20221124200758/https://www.econo...

Cilvic 4y ago

I clicked expecting this to be about _whales_ having barter trade of leeches and maggots. Might be related to playing Subnautica.

jph 4y ago

Wales medicine is wonderful and can make you feel like you're visiting Tolkien's Middle Earth, because of the appreciation of folk remedies, herbal treatments, fungi supplements, and more. Healers can recommend tonics, tinctures, barefoot walking in the woods, cold river plunges, and hot water bottles. It turns out that many of the Wales natural approaches do align with westernized medical research, and often are available at a fraction of the price of westernized treatment.

guntherhermann 4y ago
> Wales ... can make you feel like you're visiting Tolkien's Middle Earth North Wales, perhaps. Snowdonia is beautiful, but have you ever been to Cardiff on a Saturday night?
- RobotToaster 4y ago
  >have you ever been to Cardiff on a Saturday night? A little like Mordor?
- jph 4y ago
  Ha! I'm coming for New Year's week. Any suggestions? :-)
543g43g43 4y ago
>Wales medicine is wonderful and can make you feel like you're visiting Tolkien's Middle Earth What? I don't know where you ended up in Wales, but I live in a regular, city-like part of Wales and I can tell you that the healthcare is awful.
- jph 4y ago
  I've experienced Wales healthcare in the west, in Sir Gaerfyrddin, Aberteifi, Aberaeron, Aberystwyth, Eryri. Good luck today at the World Cup! :-)

Isamu 4y ago

>Like leeches, maggots have a long history in treating wounds. They are thought to have been used by the Mayan tribes of Central America and Aboriginal Australians. Their first recorded use by a doctor was during the American civil war. More from here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy >The first documented therapeutic use of maggots in the United States is credited to a second Confederate medical officer Dr. J.F. Zacharias, who reported during the American Civil War that: "Maggots in a single day would clean a wound much better than any agents we had at our command ... I am sure I saved many lives by their use." He recorded a high survival rate in patients he treated with maggots.

neilv 4y ago
As children, in Outdoor School, we were taught that if you're lost in the woods with a wound, and maggots get into it, that's good, because they'll clean the tissue that would otherwise cause worse problems, so you should say "I love them there maggots."