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.
> 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.
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.