So the general perception is that technology has taken massive strides in the last hundred years, bigger leaps than in any other period in “man’s” existence. You only have to look at the way you are viewing this article, on the screen of a pc, laptop, tablet or smartphone. Quite staggering really to stop and think of how life is, compared to life when “baby boomer’s” were kid’s.
Now we can get information at the flick of a switch by turning on a news channel on the TV or sending an email to someone in another city, country or continent. We are so lucky these days to have so many benefit’s in comparison to previous generations.
Most of the world’s industries are competing for our business which has encouraged and developed a competitive nature within individuals and organisations to develop the best tool, appliance, gadget or vehicle.
This being the case in most fields of business then why are people in general around the world sicker than they were 100 years ago. It’s constantly rammed down our throats that a new drug has been developed to fight a particular health issue and that we should all feel good about ourselves because we’re wearing a pink ribbon.
Donate to help fight cancer is what we are told, well how long have so called researchers been trying to find an answer.
Penicillin changed lives a long time ago. The discovery of penicillin is attributed to Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming in 1928
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Florey (pictured), Fleming and Chain shared a Nobel Prize in 1945 for their work on penicillin.
In 1930, Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Royal Infirmary in Sheffield, attempted to use penicillin to treat sycosis barbae, eruptions in beard follicles, but was unsuccessful, probably because the drug did not penetrate the skin deeply enough. Moving on to ophthalmia neonatorum, a gonococcal infection in infants, he achieved the first recorded cure with penicillin, on November 25, 1930. He then cured four additional patients (one adult and three infants) of eye infections, and failed to cure a fifth.
In 1939, Australian scientist Howard Florey (later Baron Florey) and a team of researchers (Ernst Boris Chain, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made significant progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin. Their attempts to treat humans failed because of insufficient volumes of penicillin (the first patient treated was Reserve Constable Albert Alexander), but they proved it harmless and effective on mice.
Some of the pioneering trials of penicillin took place at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England. These trials continue to be cited by some sources as the first cures using penicillin, though the Paine trials took place earlier.On March 14, 1942, John Bumstead and Orvan Hess saved a dying patient’s life using penicillin.[27][28]
Survivors of November 28, 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, which killed 492 people, were treated with penicillin. Merck and Companyrushed a 32-liter supply of the drug, in the form of culture liquid in which the Penicillium mould had been grown, from New Jersey to Boston in early December. The drug was crucial in combating staphylococcusbacteria which typically infect skin grafts. As a result of the success of penicillin in preventing infections, the US Government decided to support the production and distribution of penicillin to the armed forces
So my point is why were people working with such limitations in comparison to today able to make such incredible breakthroughs yet in todays technologically developed world a cure for cancer cannot be found.
Actually it has, in fact there are many cure’s available if…..if you are willing to look outside the box and seriously consider what is generally perceived as “alternative or complementary medicine” .
It’s quite sickening to know that the methods used 75 years ago and are 100% natural are today described as “Alternative” and thought of as “New age” or whacky, when in reality they are natural, and effective and strangely have no side effects.
Going back to my opening statement, the answer is simply that the competitive attitude in “Business” doesn’t apply to the pharmaceutical industry collectively known as “BIG PHARMA” because they have a strangle hold on mankind. The Smithkline Beecham’s and other controllers of life as we know it have no intention of killing off the “cash cow” of illness in the world.
No, they are all part of a Cartel, they all know that if they spend millions on developing a drug to address a symptom, then people will constantly spend their hard earned money every month. They will make billions every year, they set aside maybe a hundred million to pay out compensation to those unfortunate to have had serious side effects. But sickness is big business, I feel bad for nurses because they are underpaid and over worked struggling to help the ever growing nation of sick people.
Why are we sick? because Big Pharma wants it that way…..