Talk:Almroth Wright
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I believe someone may have changed the reference to "Scientific American"
The point that was made earlier was not whether or not he wrote in scientific magazines, which he undoubtedly did, but that his principles of medicine where being rediscovered about 50 years after he died, and nearly a century after he stated them.
The dangers which now lead to a global increase in infections in some cases could have been avoided.
After one of his followers, Sir Alexander Fleming, discovered peniccilin, antibiotics became a panacea for all ailments, and germs that resist antibiotics are now making it increasingly harder to combat diseases.
This is in fact, the reason that he is still remembered. Not for what he once did, but for what medicine could STILL learn from him.
DanielDemaret 00:13, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
