The discovery
of penicillin about 90 years ago and the widespread introduction of antibiotics to combat infectious diseases have revolutionized human medicine.
Not exact matches
Donald Johanson put the point effectively, if crudely: «You can't accept one part
of science because it brings you good things like electricity and
penicillin and throw away another part because it brings you some things you don't like
about the origin
of life.»
When I was a boy we all knew
about syphilis and gonorrhea, but because
of penicillin they were supposed to be on the way out.
Citing the number
of great successes medical research has brought us — lifesaving drugs from
penicillin to insulin, along with invaluable treatments and medical devices — he adds, «It's one more reason why we have to be appropriately skeptical, unafraid to speak out
about misleading claims, and insistent upon holding clinical research to the standards
of science.»
In 1929 when modern medicine saw the results
of the first antibiotic (
Penicillin) they quickly forgot
about the ancient wisdom that had been handed down for 1,000 ′ s
of years.
This is generally an extremely safe antibiotic - unless one is allergic to the
penicillin family
of drugs Be sure and tell your vet
about this reaction so they can flag your pets records as to this allergy.
I was older than many
of my fellow classmates» grandparents, but that meant I could tell them
about early antibiotics — that's just
penicillin, sulfa, and streptomycin — as well as stories
about my college president, Dwight Eisenhower, who then became the President
of the United States.