Amputation right there could be pretty serious!

It was. Calvin Coolidge’s son developed a small blister on his foot from playing tennis. A week later he was dead of septicemia.

With mrsa and some of the other things going around now, it may become a possibility again.

That and ignorant parents not vaccinating their kids.

Although I agree with you on the vaccine point, I don’t believe there is a vaccine against S. aureus.

True, I was speaking of diseases in general. You are correct Blurgle that there is no vaccination for Staphylococcus aureus.

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.

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.