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To: exDemMom

Heck. Not just cancer...you get an infected thumb, toe or tooth in those days, it could take you just as efficiently as nearly anything else.

We take antibiotics so for granted.


53 posted on 04/10/2014 5:20:38 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: rlmorel

> Heck. Not just cancer...you get an infected thumb, toe or tooth in those days, it could take you just as efficiently as nearly anything else.

+1. Calvin Coolidge lost his son when a blister his son got playing tennis got infected, for heaven’s sake.


55 posted on 04/10/2014 10:30:53 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: rlmorel
We take antibiotics so for granted.

Indeed.

With more and more bugs becoming antibiotic resistant, I worry that we might not have that tool in the future.

In 1940, my mother's only sister died of strep throat. I have twice survived that infection, thanks to penicillin.

56 posted on 04/11/2014 4:03:47 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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