quick facts:
- "Penicillus" is the Latin word for paintbrush
- The research and production of penicillin was moved from England to the United States in 1941, to protect it during World War II
- The first human patient to use penicillin was a police officer who had cut himself shaving.
- The first successful treatment of a patient with penicillin occurred in New Haven, Conn., in 1942
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A statute of Alexander Fleming in Madrid, Spain. |
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| A stamp from the Faroe Islands of Alexander Fleming. |
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