Great inventors who changed our world

[Old Koreelah]

 

[spacesailor]

NOT ONLY !.

My big ' thank you '  to

ALEXANDER FLEMING.

For penicillin.  Saved so many lives.

spacesailor

[Old Koreelah]

…including my MiL, who was very sick as a child and one of the first to benefit from this new miracle drug.
Without penicillin my wife would never have existed nor my kid or her littlies!

[Jerry_Atrick]

Sadly, I am of the genre that will be killed in virtually an instant..

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

(forgot to put into context - extremely allergic to penicillin).

[nomadpete]

Aaaah.

 

The lightbulb comes on now.

[nomadpete]

Look onthe bright side ..

 

No allergy to red wine?

[Jerry_Atrick]

Only too much of it... Thankfully, still don't get hangovers.. but I end up with a headache when I realised what I had purchased on eBay or Amazon, thinking how much I needed it at the time..

 

(and that includes a mini - which ended up not a bad buy and managed to get past the missus as it coincided with both her birthday and needing a new (used) car).

Edited February 20, 2022 by Jerry_Atrick

[Old Koreelah]

14 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Only too much of it... Thankfully, still don't get hangovers.. but I end up with a headache…

Wine bottles should all show how much preservative, etc they contain. By diligent experimentation I have found those without sulphur dioxide seem to cause less headaches.

[Marty_d]

36 minutes ago, Old Koreelah said:

By diligent experimentation I have found those without sulphur dioxide seem to cause less headaches.

We thank you for your service.  What a horrible job.

[spacesailor]

The only remidy before penicillin was amputation for a lot of illnesses.

I was the guinea pig for  ' osteomyelitis ' . It took five years to remidy the disease in the bone marrow !.

Three jabs three times a day, & another if you ate anything , ( with bloody knitting needles on those syringes )

Then l had a couple of years converlessing & learning to walk again , with my withered muscles. 

Much easier the second time around, learning to walk after my new hip. LoL

spacesailor

Edited February 20, 2022 by spacesailor
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[Jerry_Atrick]

Jeepers.. I am thankful our medical researchers are not facebook luddites...