Mar 132009
Neat!
Now a paraplegic man is walking again, and his doctors call it a miracle. CBS13 went to Manteca to find out how a spider bite helped get him back on his feet. …. Ever since, David’s been relying on his wheelchair to get around. Then the spider bite. A Brown Recluse sent him to the hospital, then to rehab for eight months.
Horrible, nasty toxins can have some interesting medical applications. I suspect had this guy not been a paraplegic, the spider bite might have caused him excrutiating, burst-into-flames pain…. but instead, the same toxin seems to have woken up dormant nerves.
What a medicinal spider might look like:
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