Bacon therapy to the rescue New twist on an old remedy gets the larvae out The Boston Globe | November 8, 1993| | Copyright 1993 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

In the age of costly, high-tech medicine, a story of how a few strips of ordinary bacon came to the doctors' rescue is sure to warm the hearts of many -- even if it turns their stomachs.

When antibiotics failed, it was bacon from the Massachusetts General Hospital cafeteria that succeeded in treating a 45-year-old Wayland man who returned from Costa Rica last winter suffering from painful bites on the back of his neck.

They were not simply the fang-marks of an insect, the patient toldDr. Timothy F. Brewer, an infectious disease specialist at MGH. The patient's wife, who was in a better ...

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