Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

Reconstituted in a vial, the penicillin has the same consistency as the brown glue they used to make out of old horses. It's thick and requires a large bore needle to inject.

I had a lot of them when I was a kid because my mother was stubborn and kept refusing a tonsillectomy for me. She was right, by the way.

I gave smallpox immunizations in the 60s, they were a drop of attenuated virus on the skin and 6 to 8 quick punctures within the drop of liquid to get it just below the skin. Typhoid immunization was worse, it was given between the layers of skin.

They were still one hell of a lot better than the diseases they prevented or cured.