I want to give a character of mine a wound infection on his leg. Something severe enough to raise the stakes, but not lethal. Something that would be interesting to write about. The setting is very much pre-modern in terms of medicine.
I want to give a character of mine a wound infection on his leg. Something severe enough to raise the stakes, but not lethal. Something that would be interesting to write about. The setting is very much pre-modern in terms of medicine.
https://insecthive.com/maggots-in-medicine-flesh-eating-larvae-that-heal-wounds-1-17714/
Maggots can be used to clean wounds as they can discern between living and dead tissue. Pretty fucking metal.