My book ( ebook? website? blog? series of the same? all of the above?) might seem a grimly dystopic account of WWII.
But I will also present an uplifting hopeful counterpose against the horrors of this essentially modest, restrained, sentimental modern war .
That is to say, it could have been much more modern and hence much much worse.
This counterpose is a 1940s green alternative, from the heart of Harlem ,that still offers the best way forward for all of us.
Of course I am talking about WWII's 'tiny green anomaly' : Dr Martin Henry Dawson's Vita Com Mensa project.
It involved microbes and man more or less working together commensal fashion , to bring wartime humanity the great boon of systemic, natural, penicillin for all ...
On Oct 16th 1940, Gotham's concrete jungle rescued the NATURAL penicillin stone its (British) builders had rejected and gave the world's first antibiotic shot. Alexander Fleming's ARTIFICIAL penicillin (ironically from leafy green Oxford !) won a Nobel but failed morally and technically. Instead Manhattan Natural radiated hope to a world tired, huddled and wretched. On its 75th, let's remind terrorist Ramzi Yousef about a Manhattan project that saved far more lives than the A-Bomb ever killed.
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What is "systemic" penicillin?
ReplyDeleteDawson sounds like a "Green" --- he looked
ReplyDeleteat nature and natural tiny particles with
respect and curiosity.