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How Penicillin Won World War II
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| November 25, 2022<
| Ryan McBeth
Posted on 09/17/2023 7:58:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/17/2023 7:58:09 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
09/17/2023 7:58:36 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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09/17/2023 8:01:29 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: SunkenCiv
Been reading “Normandy ‘44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France” by James Holland. He mentions how penicillin gave the Americans the advantage during the war, because Germany had nothing like it.
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posted on
09/17/2023 8:24:05 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: mass55th
I think this angle is found in one of the Navarone movies.
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posted on
09/17/2023 8:25:43 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/17/2023 8:27:11 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: mass55th
The Germans were already working with sulfa drugs. Also, Paul Ehrlich, a German physician, noted that certain chemical dyes coloured some bacterial cells but not others. He concluded that, according to this principle, it must be possible to create substances that can kill certain bacteria selectively without harming other cells. In 1909, he discovered that a chemical called arsphenamine was an effective treatment for syphilis. That was years ahead of Fleming stumbling onto Penicillin.
To: SunkenCiv
The bad old days you get gangrene or other infections they might have sulfa and penicillin. If not it’s amputation.
Happened to my mom, 1948. The docs never used penicillin, amputated to knee, thigh, then hip.
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09/17/2023 9:47:10 PM PDT
by
Karliner
(Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
To: SunkenCiv
Damn, 10% of WWII vets got the clap? Lol, fun times if you can get it.
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posted on
09/17/2023 9:49:10 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/17/2023 9:53:29 PM PDT
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: SunkenCiv
While Sulfa drugs were helpful, they were not effective against venereal disease, of which 10% of all soldiers eventually contracted.Written by non-native speakers?
Regards,
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posted on
09/17/2023 10:45:44 PM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: DogByte6RER
You forgot one poster:
Regards,
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posted on
09/17/2023 10:59:00 PM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: SunkenCiv
People don’t realize Penicillin was our 2nd largest outlay after only the Manhatten project during WWII. It was hugely expensive to develop this but obviously, it was worth it.
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09/18/2023 4:10:14 AM PDT
by
FLT-bird
To: SunkenCiv
I still remember betting shuffled off to commanders call in 1969 over in the pacific. Slide show of the most horrific examples of various types of VD one could imagine.
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posted on
09/18/2023 4:17:26 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: DogByte6RER
Thanks for sharing these!
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posted on
09/18/2023 4:44:57 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: SunkenCiv
North Africans scraped the mold from their saddles and used it as medicine; a French physician named Duchesne experimented with it, noticed its effects on bacteria, decades before Fleming.
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posted on
09/18/2023 4:52:03 AM PDT
by
Buttons12
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To: FLT-bird
"People don’t realize Penicillin was our 2nd largest outlay after only the Manhatten project during WWII." I thought it was the B-29 project...
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posted on
09/18/2023 4:53:37 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(They're lying.)
To: DogByte6RER
Subject aside, an outstanding historical collection of “memes” of the time. Thank You.
Reading of CW POWs, I recall anecdotal mention of moldy bread and other “off” rations having medicinal properties. Even more obscure was mention of the anti-biotic properties of nasal mucus. Kill or cure I suppose!
Subject is way over my head but established science has had lesser origins.
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:40:34 AM PDT
by
Huaynero
To: alexander_busek
“and in this ever-changing world in which we live in”... == English-speaking Paul McCartney
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posted on
09/18/2023 5:47:25 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: SunkenCiv
Dad was in 5th Army during first few years of WW2. While in Italy, he got Trench foot from weeks without taking off boots in the constant rain. Penicillin saved his feet and perhaps his life. Recently found letters to his parents reassuring them and telling them about this new medical miracle.
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09/18/2023 5:47:28 AM PDT
by
mware
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