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We don't realise, in this day of antibiotics, how close to death people could be in the old days. Dead from a thorn-scratch to the mouth!
by wtbob 12y ago
We don't realise, in this day of antibiotics, how close to death people could be in the old days. Dead from a thorn-scratch to the mouth!
- codezero 12y agoYep. I recently got stung by a bee, and a day later, my finger had swollen up, then the next day my hand started to swell. I knew it wasn't an allergic reaction because of the speed, but went to the doc and got antibiotics. I do wonder how it would have played out were they not available, the swelling had become pretty uncomfortable, and seemed to be spreading pretty persistently!
- dredmorbius 12y agoCalvin Coolidge, Jr., 16 year old son of President Coolidge, died from an infected blister developed while playing tennis on the White House courts without socks, in 1924: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/coolidge.asp http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/coolidge.asp (the debunked myth is that it was the dye in his socks that killed him). Another version: http://deadpresidents.tumblr.com/post/18573063027/blister http://deadpresidents.tumblr.com/post/18573063027/blister