Advert for penicillin. The antibiotic penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming in London, UK. However, it wasn't until the late 1930

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Advert for penicillin. The antibiotic penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming in London, UK. However, it wasn't until the late 1930s that penicillin was reliably produced in large quantities and started to be used on a global scale. Published in the US Evening Star, on 9th July 1944.

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