Glucocorticoids (Corticosteroids), the leeches of the 20th and 21st centuries
As kids in the 40s and 50s, when our parents drove us into Philly for our yearly shopping for school clothes at Jacob Reed’s, we’d pass a pharmacy just off the Ben Franklin Bridge which advertised leeches. Trash filled the streets and my brother and I used to call it FilthyDelphia. One evening in 1967 […]