Anonymous said...
Something the "Beatty-Bashers" have missed: When Beatty worked (up until his last few years) there was NO penicillin! Not importent until you get clawed, but then it becomes DAMNED important!
Friday, April 25, 2008
Anonymous with a brilliant argument for "who was the best", and I humbly stand corrected.
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Wade G. Burck
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My youngest son Joseph (the science geek,he's 11)read anonymous's post and wanted to know when this Clyde Beatty died. When i told him 1968, he informed me that penicillin was massed produced,starting in 1944....Not that it matters,but even if you post as anonymous,you should get your facts straight.
Worth noting, Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, and Florey introduced medicinal penicillin i n 1939 and 1940. (Both won Nobel prizes.) So "the last few years of Beatty's career" as anonymous suggests would be over 20 years... about half his career. This is no way diminishes CB. I doubt that many catslangers ever thought, "Without antibiotics I wouldn't do this job."
Also worth noting, sulfa drugs were common in the 1920's and 1930's and did combat infection, albeit not as well as penicillin. Certainly sulfa drugs still have widespread application in preventing and controlling infection from a range of gram negative and gram positive bacteria.
Ben
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