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Alexander Fleming looked petri dishes which had colonies of Staphylococcus and found one where a dot of mould was growing. He discovered that mould was able to kill different types of bacteria.
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Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and workers from the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology turned penicillin into a medicine to save lives through processing almost 500L of mould filtrate each week.
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Albert Alexander was the first person to use penicillin after scratching his mouth while pruning a rose bush which caused a deadly infection. He was improving after a few days but penicillin ran out and he died afterwards.
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