INFECTION MAYBE FATAL (Oct, 1934)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Oct, 1934
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Issue: Oct, 1934
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Before penicillin this was probably true.
INFECTION MAYBE FATAL
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Amputation right there could be pretty serious!
Comment by Neil Russell — November 20, 2007 @ 9:30 am
It was. Calvin Coolidge’s son developed a small blister on his foot from playing tennis. A week later he was dead of septicemia.
Comment by Blurgle — November 20, 2007 @ 12:45 pm
With mrsa and some of the other things going around now, it may become a possibility again.
Comment by Paul C. — November 20, 2007 @ 1:23 pm
That and ignorant parents not vaccinating their kids.
Comment by Firebrand38 — November 20, 2007 @ 5:05 pm
Although I agree with you on the vaccine point, I don’t believe there is a vaccine against S. aureus.
Comment by Blurgle — November 20, 2007 @ 7:24 pm
True, I was speaking of diseases in general. You are correct Blurgle that there is no vaccination for Staphylococcus aureus.
Comment by Firebrand38 — November 20, 2007 @ 9:17 pm
Abraham Lincoln’s son Todd died of a carbuncle (boil). Lincoln never got over the loss and today they would just put some neosporin or polysporin on it and the kid would grow up and forget all about it.
Comment by Palms Hotel — November 20, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
The very first patient I ever cared for as a student nurse was a woman in her 90’s who’d been a nurse during the Great War. Her father had died in the early part of the century from septicemia–he’d gotten a cut on his big toe. The resultant infection took two weeks to kill him.
With the prevalence of MRSA and drug-resistant strains of other bugs, it won’t be long before we’re back to using honey on wounds and maggots on a regular basis, not just for wound debridement.
Comment by Jo — November 21, 2007 @ 6:09 pm