The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

vivatifosi

So we've come full circle... there is now antibiotic resistant gonorrhoea

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/28/health/uk-man-multidrug-resistant-gonorrhea-intl/index.html

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Crikey, must have been a bad case if it required hospitalisation:eek:

I wonder how these things were cured in the days before antibiotics.

It said he was discharged to convalescence - and he was victualled for 17 days. So "not long" ... the dirty old sea dog.

He was aged 64 in their estimation and 66-68 in mine. He always said he was born 1800, but his baptism shows another year and my aunt has another year... so loose ends to tie up there.

His 1854 Master Mariner certificate indicated he'd been at sea since 1817 ... and even 17 was "a bit late" those days, they'd take boys on board from age 8. But maybe his maths or memory wasn't too great. Although pre-1817 he could've just been an apprenticed boy to a local boatman... the 37 years might only refer to his time in the actual Merchant Navy.

There's a gap in originals of PRs in that parish for the years I'd like to physically see, so I'm relying only on sight of transcriptions... I'd like to scour the actual pages of 1794-1800 to check for myself. They're a 40 mile round trip and it's "low priority".

He was a Captain... I'm convinced that, as he only had 1 child with his child-bride (14 when married) ... he must have been at it up and down the coast and one day I might discover more illeg children dotted around.

GDB2222

My grandfather used to treat patients with Salvarsan. But that was only after 1910. Before that, there was nothing effective. Beethoven ...

Pyxis

vivatifosi wrote: »

So we've come full circle... there is now antibiotic resistant gonorrhoea

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/28/health/uk-man-multidrug-resistant-gonorrhea-intl/index.html

When you think that it's less than 100 years since modern antibiotics were in use, and widespread use only since the NHS started, it's a shame that antibiotic-resistance is a thing.

I can understand it in the early days, when historically, through living conditions and poor nutrition, the slightest cough or sniffle could herald a serious illness or worse, and so antibiotics were prescribed as the first treatment of choice, regardless of whether it was actually viral, but, but, we've had this resistance warning for at least 30 years, and GPs still kept bowing to patient pressure to prescribe them. And so many were prescribed prophylactically.

We really do bite the hand that feeds us, sometimes.

vivatifosi

Pyxis wrote: »

When you think that it's less than 100 years since modern antibiotics were in use, and widespread use only since the NHS started, it's a shame that antibiotic-resistance is a thing.

I can understand it in the early days, when historically, through living conditions and poor nutrition, the slightest cough or sniffle could herald a serious illness or worse, and so antibiotics were prescribed as the first treatment of choice, regardless of whether it was actually viral, but, but, we've had this resistance warning for at least 30 years, and GPs still kept bowing to patient pressure to prescribe them. And so many were prescribed prophylactically.

We really do bite the hand that feeds us, sometimes.

Totally agree. Most people on here will have at least one person in their family tree who died from TB. Keep them for stuff that is serious, not everyday niggles. And if people sleep around, use condoms.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

My grandfather used to treat patients with Salvarsan. But that was only after 1910. Before that, there was nothing effective. Beethoven ...

I've googled that. It was an arsenical compound, and was very unstable if exposed to air, so had to be kept in sealed vials under a nitrogen atmosphere. Consequently it was very difficult to administer.

Sounds very expensive.

I don't know how effective it was.


Edit..Googled a bit more... apparently it was pretty effective, if administered properly, less so in later stages of syphillis.

At one stage, it was the most prescribed drug in the world! !!!!!!!!
(Exclamation marks, not censorships! )
It was the most effective treatment until the rise of penicillin.

PasturesNew

Off with their knobs... that'd slow it down

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Off with their knobs... that'd slow it down

:rotfl:

Root and branch, Pastures, root and branch! :rotfl:

Loanranger

michaels wrote: »

Does anyone know how graduates find jobs these days? We would like to recruit a couple but have no idea where/how to advertise, the methods we used successfully in the past that would bring in 100 applications and a dozen interviewable candidates now seem to return 2 or 3 unsuitable cvs.

University careers services will be happy to help you. Try the one, or three or four, nearest to the location of the jobs. Or try the universities that specialise in degrees specific to your vacancies eg civil engineering or whatever.

PasturesNew

Struggling to search for files. I rely heavily on just searching for what I want on various drives, based on filenames, types, dates and contents....

Right now I know I have a .txt file on my ExtHDD that was last modified in the last month .... but I can't find an easy way to search in Win10.

I used to just pull up explorer and right click on a directory ... or use the Start/search/all documents feature (as that had best control over dates)....

Win10 .... pfft today.

EDIT: Ah, found it. Well, found something... not as detailed, but I can look for a word I remember that's part of the filename. I used to be able to specify all manner of filters though.