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Penicillin

In Our Time

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Penicillin and the Second World War

Fleming was interested in using penisillin as an antiseptic. But he didn't have the conviction of what he'd seen to take it through to become a drug. It just shows the gap between the dreamer and the realist. Desperate attempts are not made to close it, often without success.

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