December 2013

Why All This Paperwork?? 4 Seal Limbs

Last time we heard about the invention of Elixer Sulfanilamide, or the Elixir of Death, as it was called in the newspapers.  Science and business had created a powerful drug that has saved countless lives.  But along with the enormous good that had come from the invention of antibiotics there were some unanticipated consequences. 

Why All This Paperwork?? 3 The Elixir of Death

Our story moves forward in time and across the Atlantic to the battlefields of the First World War.  On the Eastern Front a young German Army medic tried to keep wounded soldiers alive in the filth of trench warfare.  Try as he might, it was a losing battle.  Even if he could sew the broken bodies back together, they would die from infection.