The pioneering SBE-Penicillin patients : a guess at their socio-economic status

Many of the patients with invariably fatal subacute bacterial endocarditis who were treated with penicillin in those early pioneering war years were housewives in their child-bearing years or were children.

These occupations, by themselves, don't give us much hint of their social status and family income.

But we do get hints here and there of the typical jobs of the employed adults among the group.

The annual spirited Telethon against Stone Heart disease

An annual telethon (put on by spirits from the past) to prevent the re-occurrence of Stone Heart disease ???!

Is it a fund-raising telethon for research on the calcified (stone) formations on heart valves that leads to often-fatal SBE  endocarditis?

Or  a telethon to prevent the return of post-modern Humanity to being mean and selfish and stone hearted , ie 'modern' ?

Or both ......