A businessman who spent three years in a wheelchair with a mysterious flesh-eating condition was finally cured after a television documentary about spiders revealed the cause of his condition. Brian Holman spent three and a half years unable to walk and facing the prospect of amputation after he developed what he thought was a blister on holiday in Turkey. Doctors struggled to cure the 55-year-old former owner of a marine business and the wound on his ankle only seemed to get worse. After two operations to remove the infected skin, refusing amputation and taking morphine to ease the pain, Mr Holman happened to watch a programme on the Discovery Channel in which a woman had suffered a similar fate. It turned out that she had been bitten by a Brown Recluse Spider, a small but poisonous spider found in Turkey. "A woman on the show who suffered the same gash had turned out to have been bitten by a poisonous spider,” he said. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...s-spider-bite-after-watching-documentary.html