And Penicillin

Polliwog #432: I was wondering recently if part of the baby boom wasn't just "the returning military" as is commonly same d [?], but also that the children born from that *survived* in numbers never seen before because of the introduction of vaccines.

Interesting thought! There was also great change in sanitation, food supply, general health care especially of infants. But vaccines especially.

And penicillin. Mom's older brother, when they were teens, dove into a pond and got a stick through the eye. Died a few days later of untreatable infection. That would be around 1932.

"Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. People began using it to treat infections in 1942." -Wikipedia FWIW