WHAT DOESN'T KILL THEM ONLY MAKES THEM STRONGER . . . When penicillin became widely available during World War II, it as a medical miracle, quickly eliminating the biggest wartime killer--infected wounds. Discovered initially by a French medical student, Ernest Duchesne, in 1896, and then rediscovered by Scottish physician Alexander Fleming in 1928, the product of the soil mold Penicillium crippled many types of disease-causing bacteria. But only four years after drug companies began mass-producing penicillin in 1943, microbes began appearing …showed first 75 words of 1765 total…

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