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What if Penicillin is discovered in 1897?
In 1897, Ernest Duchesene, a young French army doctor, how the Beduin stable boys at the army hospital, used mold helped to heal the saddle sores. He did research on the mold and discovered Penicillium glaucum. Sadly his thesis was rejected, he was after all a unknown army doctor. So what if his discovery was accepted and worked on?
Penicillium glaucum, is unlike the one discovered bye Fleming, effective against TB, one of the bigger killers in Europe, (one in six death in France was due to TB in 1918).

So a higher population in Europe, less deaths from WW1. This will have a large effect on France at least, other ideas?
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