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Fleming saw a mould kill bacteria in 1928, then could not make enough of it. A war solved the manufacturing.
Penicillin Waited Fifteen Years for a War
Fleming noticed the mould in 1928. It became a medicine in 1943.
Plagues, vaccines and the accidents that saved lives: a mould that changed surgery, the doctor who noticed a pattern in one ward, why the first anaesthetics were public demonstrations. Evidence, and the mistakes that produced it.
Fleming saw a mould kill bacteria in 1928, then could not make enough of it. A war solved the manufacturing.
Fleming noticed the mould in 1928. It became a medicine in 1943.