Another groundbreaking drug that has become so widely used
that it seems common place.
Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928,
almost entirely by accident – a Petri dish left overnight showed that a mold
was actively repelling the bacteria around it. Fleming developed the
anti-biotic and it is now used to treat a number of viruses and infections. A
fortuitous discovery that has affected medicine in a profound way ever since.
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