Topic: Understanding the Bacterium that Causes Syphilis

[sam]

We must have all caught it in the 60's.  Hasn't done us any har

lol and I guess everyone just got pregnant so fertility wasn't an issue!

[Clive]

Ah!  One of the symptoms of Chlamydia is that the fallopian tubes get clogged up making conception difficult or impossible!  THAT'S how we did it!   

[sam]

 

[Simon]

[Sandra]

Back in the dark days you went to a grim building ominously labelled "Special Clinic", trying hard not to be seen as you entered.

I once went to one with a friend to give her moral support. She was very embarrassed and nervously walked in while I went in quite nonchalantly. She asked me how I could be so calm, I said it was probably because it wasnt me that was being treated 

[sam]

its strange how people thought of those places - today its like... well you have some lets treat it no bother.

[Rik]

We must have all caught it in the 60's.  Hasn't done us any har

Though I believe it can affect the ability to hit the M key. 

[Clive]

 

[Rik]

its strange how people thought of those places - today its like... well you have some lets treat it no bother.

You'd probably be amazed at how much society has changed in 40-50 years, Sam. As youngsters, Clive and I were living in the tail end of Victorian society, despite the fact she'd been dead 60 years.

[sam]

true. all for the best... well mostly I'd say.

[Rik]

Mostly, I'd agree. My grandfather died of pneumonia in 1951. He was in a huge oxygen tent (they hadn't invented masks then) and there was little other treatment they could give. Last year, it was a simple course of a couple of tablets and a lightweight mask for me.

[sam]

just one of the thousands of medical advances.

[Rik]

Indeed. With 50s medicine, I'd be dead by now, not just because of the pneumonia.

[sam]

yep.

[Rik]

It's quite sobering...