Topical and local antiseptics versus life-saving antibiotics

When did 'the miracle of penicillin' , as opposed to just penicillin itself - really begin ?

If your life is in imminent danger from a massive bacterial infection your medical team may well use antibiotics topically (around the skin next to an opening in the skin) or locally (inside that opening).

But unless your doctors are criminally insane, they will not limit their use of antibiotics to these two methods.

Celebrating 75 years since the world's first penicillin shots - October 16 1940 Manhattan

There are people still alive who were the first in your community to ever receive a life-saving shot of penicillin.

I know this with great certainty because the first were very often young children who are still in their healthy seventies and eighties today.

Gather up their firsthand oral recollections while they are still alive and healthy - because at the 100th celebration of  the first ever penicillin shots they will all be dead and it will be too late.

I just missed my chance in my own community.

Help celebrate Manhattan's 75 years of life-saving penicillin Oct 16 1940 --- Oct 16 2015

Manhattan gave the world's first shots of life-saving penicillin , seventy five years ago next October 16th (2015).

And if Manhattan and New York City is too damn modest to blow its own horn , well we in the rest of the world should start by thanking Manhattan for all the good penicillin and other antibiotics have done for us in the three quarters of a century since.

Starting January first next year, let us start sending cards, phone calls and online* messages to the mayor of New York City to thank Manhattan for changing our world for the better forever.

Manhattan gives world's first penicillin shots Oct 16 1940 : celebrating 75 years of natural penicillin live-saving !

Dr Dawson as "the Donald McKay of Medicine" 

It all happened in a blindingly fast five weeks leading up to October 16th 1940.

 Dr Martin Henry Dawson went from reading vague hints about the clinical possibilities of natural penicillium juice to find its spores to inventing ways to quickly grow and concentrate the substance.

He then gave a needle of it to himself , for signs of human toxicity - and survived.

The very next day, October 16th 1940, Manhattan was the site of the world's first penicillin shots - as Dr Dawson injected his team's 'crude' natural penicillin into two 4F patients (a black and a Jew).

Seventy five years ago next year !