Thats exactly what he gave me, actually. And I'm glad penicillian is working- it's the old man with a mean dog and a shotgun of antibiotics. If I can manage this with penicilin rather than one of the newer high-speed low-drag type antibiotics, I'm very happy.

I was thinking more along the lines of if this happened up in the back country and I wasn't able to extract myself or be extracted, or during a disaster. We don't think of our mouths most of the time- maybe with them, but not of them. So lets say we get crud in our mouth during an earthquake or flood for example, and a bad tooth or a gum laceration abscesses quickly. Other than numbing the pain and trying to drain it...