ArbitraryValue
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- Comment on Imagine getting a Nobel prize for infecting people with Malaria… 1 week ago:
About a quarter of the time, yes. The curative effect was from the fever rather than directly from the malaria parasite, and they were experimenting with machines to heat people up relatively safely and reliably without needing to infect them with malaria when the discovery of antibiotics made the whole approach obsolete.
Link. Paul de Kruif’s book “Microbe Hunters” is a fascinating view into the state of microbiology a hundred years ago, when the idea that scientists could create a treatment that would cure a disease was still somewhat audacious.
- Comment on That happened 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on That happened 5 weeks ago:
Distraught, in February 1976 Maeno attempted suicide by overdosing on suicide pills. He was found lying in the snow outside the hot springs resort town of Yuzawa and rushed to hospital, where he soon recovered.
They don’t work if you take too many?
- Comment on 目 Gah! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Valve dropped that Steam Machine Companion Cube case down the legal incinerator after its makers neglected to get their permission 1 month ago:
Mickey Mouse case next. It can’t possibly go wrong.
