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Oil idea was not so surprising at the time >> << Back to antibiotic treatment of pneumonia strattera 10mg (as shown in this colorized X) was varied approaches affairbut werent unscientific. At first glance, injecting emulsified olive oil in your veins sounds frankly dangerous. But pause to consider the context can make a crazy notion seems almost normal. In the early 1900s, pneumonia was one of the leading causes of death in the United States. without antibiotics (not widely known until the 1940s), it is not a panacea. So its not surprising the researchers were experimenting. But AC Fraser, V. Walsh werent just try to treat willy-nilly. Their oil approach had some scientific roots. It does not seem strange to me, says Harvard Scott Podolsky, author

pneumonia with antibiotics. This is partly like modern medicine. serotherapy, a popular treatment of the 1930s, involved injecting animal antibodies to a particular strain of bacteria in humans. tactics requires some level of immunological know-how. In addition, the idea of ​​using oil handouts to bad bacterial by-products for detoxification in the liver depends on increased understanding of how the body fights and cleans the invaders. If the oil is still the idea sounds strange, consider that penicillin The first therapeutically useful anti] biotic, was transferred as a form of juice after its discovery by Alexander Fleming. In not so accidentally turn, Fleming worked at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, probably in the laboratory on only one floor of the Fraser and Walsh. Elizabeth QuillP.