Most people find maggots gross. If one does not treat his or her wound properly, so much
so that the tissues around the wound become necrotic, there is a possibility that maggots
would grow around the wound. Maggots in that context is, to most people, even more
disgusting. However, in those cases, what are lethal are not the maggots which feed on
dead flesh, but are the bacteria that grow from it..
Our colon is not a straight line, so when the surgeon performs a colonoscopy, he or she does
not simply push the tube-like endoscope through the colon. After the endoscope passes
through the rectum, it reaches the curvy sigmoid colon, and the two right-angled turns of
splenic flexure and hepatic flexure are waiting ahead…
Varicose veins are caused by faulty valves in leg veins that prevent blood from flowing back to the heart normally. Not only do varicose veins look bad on one’s legs, the patient’s legs also get tired and cramped easily, and in some cases there might also be darkened skin festering sore.
Many Chinese dishes, especially grassroots ones, feature pig intestines, small and large
alike. When Chinese chefs or housewives are picking the best pig intestines as ingredients
for their recipes, the knowledge they apply is somehow quite telling of the human
gastrointestinal system.
