
Penicillin
In Our Time
The Development of Resistance to Antibacterial Drugs
The development of penicillin in the 1940s paved the way for all modern antibacterial drug discovery and development. The primary aim was to get men fighting again as quickly as possible. They were going for two things: gonorrhea and syphilis, and blood infections. By 1945 they had very well uses a penicillin where men were injured at the front.
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