Erika Bonham dot com

June 2, 2003

Last July, I wrote a little something about germs and antibiotics. In that entry, I mentioned antibiotics. Since then, I have received a few comments and emails in which the reader assumes I am an expert on antibiotics and know all. I am assuming someone wants me to do their homework for them. "How was antibiotics discovered and how has it affected our lives over the last 20 years?" I am a nurse. I give antibiotics. I took a pharmacology class. I have a drug book in a box 300 miles away. I am by no means an expert. I have as much knowledge as the next person about when antibiotics were invented and how they have affected our lives. Penicillin was first, grown in mold and lots of people would have died if we hadn't had them over the last twenty years. Although I think they discovered Penicillin long before that. There. Want more? The internet is at your fingertips.

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