<P> Written records have documented that maggots have been used since antiquity as a wound treatment . There are reports of the use of maggots for wound healing by Maya Native Americans and Aboriginal tribes in Australia . There also have been reports of the use of maggot treatment in Renaissance times . Military physicians have observed that soldiers whose wounds had become colonized with maggots experienced significantly less morbidity and mortality than soldiers whose wounds had not become colonized . These physicians included Napoleon's general surgeon, Baron Dominique Larrey . Larrey reported during France's Egyptian campaign in Syria, 1798--1801, that certain species of fly consumed only dead tissue and helped wounds to heal . </P> <P> Joseph Jones, a ranking Confederate medical officer during the American Civil War, is quoted as follows, "I have frequently seen neglected wounds...filled with maggots...as far as my experience extends, these worms eat only dead tissues, and do not injure specifically the well parts ." 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 . </P> <P> During World War I, William S. Baer, an orthopedic surgeon, noticed that a soldier left for several days on the battlefield who had sustained compound fractures of the femur and large flesh wounds and arrived at the hospital with maggots infesting his wounds had no fever or other signs of infection and survived his injuries, which would normally have been fatal . After the war Baer began using maggot therapy at Children's Hospital in Boston . </P> <P> There were reports that American prisoners of war of the Japanese in World War II resorted to maggot therapy to treat severe wounds . </P>

Who was the doctor who used maggot debridement therapy in world war i