Penicillin WI

The Vulture

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Penicillin was discovered through, by all accounts, an easily preventable accident. What might have resulted if Fleming or his assistant had covered or sealed the bacterial culture, protecting it from the fungal growth that would inspire Fleming to research medical uses for it and produce the first antibiotic?
 
In the medium term antibiotics are almost impossible to avoid if modern medical research takes off, but their being available in time for WWII and the Western economic miracle was a fortuitous accident. Certainly not something that needed to happen. A 1940s and 1950s without the easy few million units of penicillin would be culturally quite different.
 
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