Grauwin meanwhile faced an enemy of a different sort, as maggots invaded the infirmary and laid their eggs under bloody bandages and plaster casts. “At night,” Grauwin later recalled, “it was a shocking sight to watch those repugnant little white worms moving over the hands, the faces, and in the ears of the sleeping wounded.” He tried to reassure the panic-stricken men that the maggots, by eating dead and infected tissue, were hastening the healing process.
