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 ...
Penggunaan terapi pertama belatung dikreditkan ke Konfederasi petugas medis kedua Dr. JF Zacharias, yang dilaporkan selama Perang Saudara Amerika itu, "Belatung ... dalam satu hari akan membersihkan luka jauh lebih baik daripada agen yang kami punya di kami perintah ...