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By the 1940s the arrival of the first antibiotic, penicillin, appeared to be a miracle medicine. Its discoverer Alexander Fleming was regarded as a great hero.
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By the 1940s the arrival of the first antibiotic, penicillin, appeared to be a miracle medicine. Its discoverer Alexander Fleming was regarded as a great hero.
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