Posted on 11/26/2013 6:45:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I asked a physician about the ban and disappearance of mercuric compounds that I recall using as a child and which seemed to work. He told that they didn’t work. Yet I remember mercurochrome and yellow oxide of mercury being commonly in use for decades. Surely we would have noticed that they were ineffective.
For slivers that are too tiny to tweeze out, I have had success covering with triple antibiotic ointment and an occlusive dressing like a waterproof bandage with adhesive on all four sides. I think they are marketed as *sport* bandaids. Leave it on overnight, the skin softens and slightly swells and the sliver is pushed out enough to tweeze. If you dig it out, I was taught to flame the needle and wipe with alcohol, first.
Impetigo I recall being treated with potassium permanganate. That was over 65 years ago. I have no idea what they use now.
My father had pneumonia in 1917, pre-antibiotics. My grandfather simply said Dad survived because of prayer. That is really all they had. They lived in a small town in Argentina at the time.
Well, then, that is certainly reassuring.
For the longest time, I almost believed that permanent antibiotic resistance was real.
My father died of tuberculosis in 1938.
A few years later and he would have been cured-—but now things are turning back.
Frightening.
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No so long ago, any old person who got pneumonia had a death sentence. For the feeble, it was a quick and relatively painless way to go, called the old person’s friend.
The problem is not so much finding new antibiotics as making them into effective and safe medications. It is a long, expensive, and chancy path from lab to pharmacy shelf.
I tend to think the biological sciences can still give bacteria a run for their money.
One thing that seems under-investigated to me is phages. These are viruses that infect and kill bacteria (but will not infect other kinds of cells). Phages assault bacteria a lot more intelligently and aggressively than antibiotics can.
then those who stop looking, die.
natural cures are better. oil of oregano kills just about everything. manuka honey stops all bad bacteria in its tracks.
Shh!
You’re not supposed to talk about that. Americans’ bodies belong to their doctors.
Oh. the doctors are going to leave the profession.
I guess we’ll have to rely on self care. The biggest reason we turn to other cultures for this is because women have deserted their families, they’ve not taken on the role of healer and we’ll get back to some semblance of it, but the moms’ll have to humiliate themselves into taking on this role.
Two jobs? Wat til kids get sick and there’s no one for them to go see, doctor wise
what brand and where do you buy it? I have some ASAP brand that I got and thought it was for cuts. Now it is 5 months past date and I don’t know if I can use it. do you just take it like cough med?
‘Byzantine Medicine’ would look bizarre on a billboard.
I just get it at the health food store. Don’t know the brand name. You can take it directly from the teaspoon or mix with water or tea. Doesn’t have much of a taste. Some people take a teaspoon or two once or twice a day. I just take it when I feel something coming on or I have been around crowds that seem to include people with colds, etc. Skiing, for example. My sister used it directly in her eye to clear up a bad stye. She gets bladder infections often and this is all she ever uses.
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