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That's a good point; I didn't make the connection with the 1967 date and focused on the article referencing that one company as the only source of antivenom. I
by Gormo 17y ago
That's a good point; I didn't make the connection with the 1967 date and focused on the article referencing that one company as the only source of antivenom.
Is it possible for pharmacists to synthesize anti-venom on demand? Coral snake bites may be rare, but if you were, for example, the operator of an Everglades tour group, your probability of encountering a bite might be a bit higher, and the antivenom would be good to keep around.
- sigstoat 17y agoyou'd probably want an organic synthesis chemist, not a pharmacist. and you wouldn't have time for him to have the appropriate glassware fabricated, and synthesis equipment setup. so he'd have to leave a room with it all step up properly. ...which sounds like the sort of thing you might do if you were just manufacturing it.
- brg 17y agoPerhaps originally I should have said pharmacologist, but even in retrospect your term of a specialized chemist seems more correct.