Judge Smails
09-27-2007, 07:00 PM
Who the fuck is George Rieveschl, you ask? I started thinking about most of the death threads that I've seen here and how this board is sometimes a reflection of our society as a whole, and how we worship celebrity rather people who have actually accomplished positive things in their lives that help the human condition.
George Rieveschl lived his life in relative anonymity, but he did manage to invent a little drug called Benadryl. Several years ago I developed a severe allergy to shell fish. I'm not exagerating when I say that I owe my life to a bottle of Benadryl which helped slow the reaction that was quickly closing my airway until I could get to the Emergency Room.
So, I salute you George Rieveschl. My only regret is that I'd never heard of you until today.
LINK (http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/09/24/daily52.html)
"He was constantly giving of his resources and of himself," she said. "It was always about the other person or the university. He never was a person who needed to brag or needed the attention."
Rieveschl found that his two-part compound, originally tested to improve muscle-relaxing medications, dramatically blocked histamine, a chemical released in the body that narrows air passages in the lungs and causes inflammation.
George Rieveschl lived his life in relative anonymity, but he did manage to invent a little drug called Benadryl. Several years ago I developed a severe allergy to shell fish. I'm not exagerating when I say that I owe my life to a bottle of Benadryl which helped slow the reaction that was quickly closing my airway until I could get to the Emergency Room.
So, I salute you George Rieveschl. My only regret is that I'd never heard of you until today.
LINK (http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/09/24/daily52.html)
"He was constantly giving of his resources and of himself," she said. "It was always about the other person or the university. He never was a person who needed to brag or needed the attention."
Rieveschl found that his two-part compound, originally tested to improve muscle-relaxing medications, dramatically blocked histamine, a chemical released in the body that narrows air passages in the lungs and causes inflammation.