Science, Maths & Technology
Understanding antibiotic resistance
...Spanish fly, although it's actually a green beetle. They would have ground it up and then applied the paste to his throat. But all that did was blister the skin. He said to his doctors, I die hard, but I'm not afraid to go. By late that evening, the first president of the United States was dead. Washington probably died from a simple infection. At the end of the 18th...