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Penicillin became available after 1943 and was finally the cure for the
centuries old scourge of syphilis (Rose 1946). The syphilitic spirochete,
Treponema pallidum, had been detected thirty years earlier in the brains
of people with dementia paralytica (Noguchi 1913). Salvarsan had been
introduced as the "magic bullet" against syphilis, but it did not rid the
body of syphilis infection any more than chlorpromazine or any
subsequent anti-psychotic medication has proved to cure schizophrenia.

Penicillin is a strong bactericide and effectively kills many germs, and
many other antibiotics have followed. But antibiotics can also disrupt cell
mitochondria, which are similar in structure to bacteria and may share a
common origin (Gray et al. 1999). The auditory system and kidneys are
most vulnerable to antibiotic medications, many of which are known to
have oto-toxic and nephro-toxic side effects. The aminoglycoside
antibiotics are known to cause deafness (Jacobs 1997). Because
mitochondria are inherited only from the mother, aminoglycoside
deafness and other disorders caused by damaged mitochondria can be
passed on from mother to child (Schapira 1998).

The most common warning against overuse of antibiotics is that bacteria
mutate and can become resistant. Mitochondria cannot adapt through
mutation within the lifetime of any person, so mitochondrial damage is
permanent for any woman and her subsequent offspring. Overuse of
anitbiotics and other substances that are toxic to mitochondria should be
investigated as one possible cause of the increased incidence of autism.
The fall of Rome may have been overuse of alcohol consumed from
lead vessels; perhaps overuse of unnatural chemical substances is
leading to the fall of present-day civilization.