[SunkenCiv]

Penicillin and it's effect on WW2 and the world | 3:46
Keller Toral | 2 subscribers | 1,717 views | May 11, 2015

[mass55th]

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.

[dfwgator]

[struggle]

Damn, 10% of WWII vets got the clap? Lol, fun times if you can get it.

[DogByte6RER]

Some related War Era PSAs … when the ads failed then the penicillin shots came in for back-up. Anyways … did these classic Glyphs save any GIs from meeting early Graves and perhaps meeting God too?!? Heh …

[alexander_busek]

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,

[FLT-bird]

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.

[Gaffer]

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.

[Buttons12]

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.

[mware]

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.