The Comeback of the Maggot Therapy

Intro: What is Ergot poisoning and how does it affect the brain? Scientists have found that ergot; the poisonous fungus that grows in rye, is highly toxic. The symptoms display themselves in an altered state of mind. Ergot has also been used for medicinal purposes beside being a naturally occurring fungus.Ergot poisoning was the fundamental reason for the mass hysteria during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.

For my parasite I picked Ophiocordyceps unilateralis or the zombie ant fungus. This fungus infects tree dwelling carpenter ants in tropical rainforests and forces them to do its biding. The parasitic fungus spreads itself around by releasing spores into the air like most fungi. The catch is that to be able to mature itself to the point of passing along its offspring it has to sacrifice an ant. Once an ant has become infected it behaves very bizarrely. The fungus forces the ant to crawl out to the end of a leaf and then it begins to shake violently. This causes the ant to fall to the forest floor where it begins to look for a nearby plant. Once it has found a suitable plant, usually one around 10cm from the ground, it climbs out onto a leaf

The art of medicine and curing diseases was not always approached in a scientific way. In fact, many advances occurred between 1919 to 1939, after technological advances allowed scientists to apply the scientific method to medical research. At this time, the ethics of using patients as test subjects either for new medicines or as samples for further testing were not considered. An extreme example of this was the Nazi’s using concentration camp inmates – including children – to run painful and invasive experiments. More modern examples are not so easy to identify as unethical, however. While amputating a leg to develop methods to deal with fractures and war wounds is obviously unethical, harvesting cells to develop a vaccine is not so clear cut, as the disadvantage to the patient is hard to identify. Coming from the various Nazi testing and especially the Nuremberg testing and trials, another code of ethics was developed, called the Nuremberg Code.

This, therefore, takes us to the most shared concerns people present about how homeopathic medicines are manufactured and of their safety. The raw materials used for various homeopathic medicines are known poisons. Samuel Hahnemann’s goal was to search for a means to treat patients less severely than the treatments used in his day, which often involved purging, leeching, bloodletting,

In the passage, a doctor proceeds to say how MagnaSoles are more than just a shoe insert, but a “total foot rejuvenation system”. This proves how the scientist treats MagnaSoles like a panacea, but it absolutely misrepresents science. A website continues to talk about MaganaSoles with more absurd scientific ideas. The passage talks about the “healing power of crystals to re-stimulate dead foot cells with vibrational biofeedback… a process similar to that by which medicine makes people better.” This fact is false because not only are crystals not a real form of medicine, but also dead cells cannot be brought back to life. This article falsely exaggerates science and the benefits of

Imagine waking up everyday to the blood-curling screams of a child. Sweat has accumulated on their forehead like condensation upon a glass. Their skin, overcome by agitated hives, is sweltering under the red irritation. Their skin feels as though it is crawling bring about an unbearable itch. Every time the child scrapes his fingernails against the skin, infection spreads contaminating what’s left of his bare skin. He has been suffering for days, he aches for anything that will make the pain to subside. Unable to find anything to ease the pain he lies there in agony.

The book "An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases" by Moises Velasquez-Manoff is about the relationship between parasites and diseases. The author of the book suffers from alopecia, an autoimmune disease, where he is left with no hair anywhere on his body. The book centers around the author's claim: parasites can lessen and sometimes get rid of allergic and autoimmune disease symptoms. The most interesting part of the book was when the author, Manoff, talked about his self-experiment. Manoff travelled to Mexico where he willingly injected himself with hookworms, a parasite, to find out what would happen to his allergies and alopecia. He talks about this in the first chapter, only explaining how he decided to do it and how he injected himself, but not the results.

Our results shows that are high percentage of people who actually believed the misconception, which human can get warts by touching frogs. We would inform our audience to correct their misconception by providing the evidences to explain the reason in detail that I listed below. This might be shock to many people who believed in it, but it shouldn’t affect people’s life that much. Because this misconception will only cause people to keep away from frogs, which is not a bad thing from the view of health consideration, because for most of the wild frogs, they could carry bacteria, parasites, and diseases and absolutely people want to keep away with. They might also become very upset since I declare the conclusion for saying it is a misconception,

Almost 8 million people are infected with hookworm (Freary et al), in severe cases it can result in death. On the contrary, epidemiological evidence suggests the hookworm may help with allergies and asthma. Two different scientific tests were performed to see if hookworms could help with symptoms of allergies and asthma. The first study was done to determine if hookworm infection would help airway responsiveness in a person who has allergies. The second study tested “to see the effects of experimental hookworm infection in asthma” (Freary et al). In comparison both the studies were trying to use hookworms as a treatment for issues with people’s immune systems. Contrastingly, the first study (based on allergies) had to be conducted first in

Black fly is the best known medically important insect, which belongs to a genus of Simulium, family of Simuliidae and the order of Diptera. Many species of female black flies are blood-sucking habit and they transmit the parasitic nematode Onchocerca volvulus, the causative organism of human onchocerciasis (river blindness) (Anbalagan et al., 2014a). It is commonly found in tropical Africa, Central America, South America and Yemen, where 30 million people are infected. Moreover, female blackfly bites may become itchy and swollen in human body for a number of days. In sensitized individuals reaction to black fly saliva injected at the feeding site may cause a syndrome known as “black fly fever” that consists of headaches, fever, nausea, and/or inflammation of nymph nodes (Harwood and James, 1979).

Even in high schools, colleges, and medical schools, animals are used as part of most instruction about dissection to explore the anatomy of different organisms and how the animals’ body would compare to the human body. How many cadaver bodies would a medical student waste if they did not first learn where to cut or the right way to cut? The application of animal research has lead to many discoveries in the medical departments. For example, mainly dogs have been used to develop cardiac techniques such as cardiac bypass, angioplasty and heart transplants, mice and monkeys have been used in the trials to find new remedies for HIV and AIDS, mice were used in the discovery of antibiotic medication such as penicillin and various animals were used in the research for cancer treatments such as chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy (“Why do Scientists”). In the absence of animal testing, there would be physicians or scientists, the health care system would be completely eliminated and the world would be permeated with incurable diseases.

The quantity of creatures utilized as a part of research has expanded with the headway of innovative work in therapeutic innovation. Consistently, a great many exploratory creatures are utilized everywhere throughout the world. Creatures are utilized to create medicinal medicines, decide the harmfulness of meds, check the security of items bound for human utilize, and other biomedical, business, and social insurance employments. The torment, pain and demise experienced by the creatures amid logical examinations have been a debating issue for quite a

For the past 20 years, there has a been an on going heated debate on whether experiments on animals for the benefit of medical and scientific research is ethical. Whether it is or isn't, most people believe that some form of cost-benefit test should be performed to determine if the action is right. The costs include: animal pain, distress and death where the benefits include the collection of new knowledge or the development of new medical therapies for humans. Looking into these different aspects of the experimentation, there is a large gap for argument between the different scientists' views. In the next few paragraphs, both sides of the argument will be expressed by the supporters.

Needles have punctured your skin, and you’ve drawn in an unknown gas so now you’re in panic and fear invades you. You are a creature, a mouse, who is being used for scientific experiments. The people who are doing the experiments have taken advantage of your ability to not being able to fight back and all you can do is wish for something to change. For centuries people have been using animals to experiment on, although there are benefits there are also problems. While people in the cosmetic industry learn to not use the creatures, what are scientists doing? Animals have been forced into suffering from experiments they unwillingly went into and we need to slow down on our use of the creatures without completely eliminating the experiments at once.

Whether or not many people realize it, leeches are a relatively big population. Naturally, when something sucks your blood you assume its bad, a foe per say. However, in many cases, leeches can actually be highly beneficial to individuals suffering in different situations. This medicinal side of the spectrum shows leeches as being a friend so to speak. Within our research we have found many different interesting facts and applications for leeches as well as how they can potentially affect ones ' bodies. This paper will address whether leeches are a friend or a foe.