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In 1885, Louis Pasteur (not a doctor) was convinced by Jacques Joseph Grancher, (who was a doctor), to administer his then-experimental rabies vaccine to a young French boy, Joesph Meister, who had been bitten numerous times by a rabid dog. Pasteur and his team were reluctant, as the vaccine was--at the time--still in the experimental… Continue reading A Useful and Effective Vaccine: For Rabies
Where would you rather be? Yeah. I got the vaccination (Pfizer) a few months ago. I'll be 67 next month, and I don't mind admitting that, at all. In relative terms, I'm pretty healthy, with no chronic conditions other than age-related arthritis in some of my joints. Most of what else afflicts me is a… Continue reading All Other Things Being Equal–Covidwise, At Least…
"Medic!" That cry on the battlefield means a soldier is wounded. It also means someone will almost always respond, a normally-unarmed battlefield medic. This is the known and expected outcome of that call. But where did battlefield medicine start and how did evolve? Battlefield Medics: How Warfare Changed the History of Medicine, by Martin King,… Continue reading Book Review By Seawriter: Battlefield Medicine from Ancient Egypt to Modern Afghanistan