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Penicillin

In Our Time

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The History of Penicillin

Chemistry was pretty good by then. Some dyes had an antimicrobial effect, including against some bacteria and other small parasites as well. And there was then this chemical development of a dye onto making what we call the sulfonomite class of drugs. They were used right up into World War II and indeed, sometimes they're still used today.

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