Yes, I was thinking that you might want a handout or slide list of things that you can't ask outright--"Here are a few other things that might have killed off some of you."
Probably a certain percentage of those who have ever been treated with an antibiotic would have to be killed off, as some untreated infections would have been fatal.
One thing that strikes me is that one need not go back very far for a lot of this to apply. My maternal grandfather died of appendicitis in 1930, and a paternal uncle died of it (at age 8 or so) about that same time. And I probably would have died at age 3 if I had been born just a few years earlier than I was, before penicillan was available.
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Date: 2006-01-25 08:12 pm (UTC)Probably a certain percentage of those who have ever been treated with an antibiotic would have to be killed off, as some untreated infections would have been fatal.
One thing that strikes me is that one need not go back very far for a lot of this to apply. My maternal grandfather died of appendicitis in 1930, and a paternal uncle died of it (at age 8 or so) about that same time. And I probably would have died at age 3 if I had been born just a few years earlier than I was, before penicillan was available.