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To: XR7
Great article except for the "invented penicillin" bit.

The writer has obviously never heard of Fleming or Duchesne or Florey.

43 posted on 11/12/2008 2:11:29 PM PST by Churchillspirit
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To: Churchillspirit

That stumbled me too. Although I don’t know who “invented” penicillin, Flemming certainly discovered it. He did not “innovate” it, though. I don’t recall what made it into a viable medicine at least in war time.


93 posted on 11/12/2008 5:42:03 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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