Topic: Understanding the Bacterium that Causes Syphilis

[Simon]

But also encouraging that being seriously ill doesn't automatically mean death these days. 

[Rik]

Oh, indeed.

[Simon]

Thankfully. 

[Rik]

I wonder if Clive has the same sort of memories of the era as I do? We have to consider that medicine may not have reached Wales till much later. 

[Clive]

You'd probably be amazed at how much society has changed in 40-50 years, Sam. As youngsters, Clive and I were living in the tail end of Victorian society, despite the fact she'd been dead 60 years.

Yes, I agree with that view Rik.  By and large I think it's changed for the better.  

[Clive]

Medicine is for wimps! 

[Rik]

Dr John Collis Brown's Chlorodyne, Dentifrice... Really strange things to have stuck around as long as they did.

[Clive]

Perahaps because they contained illegal drugs?   

[sam]

Perahaps because they contained illegal drugs?   

what like Coca-Cola?

[Clive]

Morphine. 

[Rik]

It was only taken off the market when drug addiction became an issue, and people were buying up large stocks to extract the morphine from.

[sam]

yikes!!

[Rik]

I told you we grew up in a different world.

[sam]

yep - I'm happy about that too.

[Rik]