re: #333 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and the yaws

Yeah, horrible looking. But just like the black death, penicillin stops it quick.

( I remember being shocked when my doctor told me that my daughter had scarlet fever. I was reading a lot of romance novels at the time and had internalised that scarlet fever meant DEATH. “No, no, don’t worry, quick course of antibiotics and it’s all over”. And it was.)