From: roland@perry.uk 
  
 In message , at 14:25:34 on 
 Sun, 7 Sep 2025, Nick Odell  remarked: 
  
 >About twenty years ago, I was having a consultation with my GP of the 
 >time when he said that it was a pity they couldn't administer 
 >penicillin because it was such a useful and powerful antibiotic and 
 >would I be willing to try a little experiment with him? Most of the 
 >allergies reported in the 1940s and 1950s, he said, had subsequently 
 >been found to have been caused by other ingredients and impurities in 
 >the early manufacture of the antibiotic and not by the penicillin 
 >itself. Since I was going to go into my place of work and would be 
 >with other people for the next eight to ten hours and since he was 
 >giving me his mobile phone number, just in case, would I be willing to 
 >try some penicillin this time? If anything happened, he said, it would 
 >be almost immediate but the eight to ten hours was playing on the safe 
 >side. 
  
 My late wife ended up carrying a card which said that if she exhibited a 
 particular symptom it was a medical emergency and essential that she was 
 treated in hospital within an hour. To do that from where we happened to 
 live, would require an air-ambulance - and in any event jumping the 
 queue at A&E. 
 -- 
 Roland Perry 
  
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