Most
peter treatment Jenny saw was done to soldiers. The U. S. Army would
not begin to benefit from the discovery of penicillin until 1943, and
there were many soldiers who didn't get penicillin until 1945. At
Boston Mercy, in the early days of 1942, peters were usually treated
with sulfa and arsenic. Sulfathiazole was for the clap--with lots of
water recommended. For syphilis, in the days before penicillin, they
used neoarsphenamine; Jenny Fields thought that this was the epitome
of all that sex could lead to--to introduce arsenic into the human
chemistry, to try to clean the chemistry up.
Such
a great discovery, the penicillin, indeed. According to Fleming, it
was discovered the 28th
of September, although it is not that clear that its discovery was by
chance, as we are usually told. The World According to Garp is an
extraordinary novel, but it won´t appeal to parents who tend to
worry too much. In the prologue, John Irving tries to answer the two
most hated questions by writers: What is the novel about? Is this
novel autobiographical?
