Hand washing between patients is not practiced as rigidly as it once was. We need to put teeth into punishment for failure to hand wash especially when it leads to infections.
Incidentally, have you ever seen the green mold that grows on old oranges. That is old fashioned penicillin. When I am doing a lot of rough work, I keep a moldy orange in the frig, and if I get a cut or scrape rub some of the mold on it or on the bandage. Works fine. Better than dog licks. Also urge people to eat yogurt or probiotics for a week after a course of penicillin.
Like every other environmental factor the effects of antibiotics (homemade or not) and dog licks are both good and bad. There is a some benefit from some amount of everything (nutrients, other food, water, germs, etc). Too much of any factor is detrimental along with too little. Our culture rarely figures out the amounts that are just right. Far too many people are constantly avoiding germs one way or another and suffer for it. Still others may get a little too much dog saliva. The right amounts may exist in the right natural products like the dog saliva or moldy orange but perhaps neither of those had natural origins either and are a little imbalanced in one way or another.
Silver: Nature’s Water Purifier
“In a world concerned with the spreading of virus and disease, silver is increasingly being tapped for its bactericidal properties and used in treatments for conditions ranging from severe burns to Legionnaires Disease.
While silver’s importance as a bactericide has been documented only since the late 1800s, its use in purification has been known throughout the ages. Early records indicate that the Phoenicians, for example, used silver vessels to keep water, wine and vinegar pure during their long voyages. In America, pioneers moving west put silver and copper coins in their water barrels to keep it clean.
In fact, “born with a silver spoon in his mouth” is not a reference to wealth, but to health. In the early 18th century, babies who were fed with silver spoons were healthier than those fed with spoons made from other metals, and silver pacifiers found wide use in America because of their beneficial health effects.