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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

75th Anniversary of First Penicillin Shot, NY Oct 16 1940

Next October 2015 will see the 75th Anniversary of the first ever shot of Antibiotics - a historical event that took place at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre on October 16th 1940.

It marks our very last chance to honour  these medical pioneers while some of them are still alive.

Some hometowns  - and not just in the Third World - did not see their first use of antibiotics for five to ten years after Manhattan did .

Their chances of having those pioneering medical personnel and the often very young pioneering patients still with us is potentially great.

But in the case of the very first case in Manhattan , we can only invite the surviving children and grandchildren of the small medical team and the first two patients to mark the 75th Anniversary of the birthing of our Age of Antibiotics .

Those two were young men dying of then invariably fatal SBE - the endocarditis that is the real killer in cases of Rheumatic Fever - one a 30 year old black from St Nicholas Avenue in Harlem , Aaron Alston, and the other , Charles Aronson , probably a 27 year old Jewish boy from Vyse Avenue in the Bronx.

But that won't happen without help from all of us to find those first medical staff and first patients and families members - in your hometown as well as in New York City ....

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