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Old 07-11-2015, 03:50 PM  
SilentKnight
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Originally Posted by MaDalton View Post
Back in what day?

until the invention of Penicilin (accidentally) people were dying like flies and we never lived as long as we do today. the life expectancy for a male in the US in 1900 was 46 years
Took me 20secs to find:

In 1796, Edward Jenner, a doctor in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, rural England, discovered that immunity to smallpox could be produced by inoculating a person with material from a cowpox lesion.

Point being - the doc didn't have millions of bucks at his disposal and a worldwide team of scientists with advanced technology working on the cure.

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