Ernie Primeau has mentioned Alexander Fleming (the man credited with
first isolating penicillin and popularizing its use in Western medicine)
several times, apparently because he feels it has relevance to his
position here on alt.baldspot. After all, it is only a matter of time
before Ernie Primeau is famously recognized for his "pluck and grow" as
Dr. Fleming was for his work on penicillin.

We all know about Ernie Primeau: he's a 64+ year old lens dipper with a
12th grade education, and no scientific training, who believes plucking
body hair regrows scalp hair, a theory no one in the scientific world
accepts.

And here's a link to the biography of Dr. Fleming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming

I wanted to highlight the part detailing Dr. Fleming's work before his
work on penicillin. Tell me if there are any similarities to Ernie
Primeau's "work" here on alt.baldspot:

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Work before penicillin

After the war Fleming looked for anti-bacterial agents because he had
witnessed the death of many soldiers from septicemia. Unfortunately
antiseptics killed the patient's immunological defences faster than they
killed the invading bacteria. In an article in The Lancet during World
War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to
do due to his own glass blowing skills, which explained why antiseptics
were killing more soldiers than the diseases themselves during WWI.
Antiseptics worked well on the skin, but deep wounds had a tendency to
shelter anaerobic bacteria, and antiseptics mainly seemed to remove
beneficial agents that actually protected the patients in these cases.
Sir Almroth Wright strongly supported Fleming's findings. Despite this,
most army physicians during WWI continued to use antiseptics even in
cases where this worsened the condition of the patients.

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