Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Before antibiotics, a simple infection could kill. A cut, a case of pneumonia, a battlefield wound: the body often had to fight alone.
In 1928, the Scottish doctor Alexander Fleming stumbled on a substance that could kill bacteria. It would be called penicillin. But turning it into a real medicine took years more.
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- 2A forgotten dish
- 3Oxford turns the idea into a cure
- 4Making it by the ton
- 5The shadow of resistance
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary7 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.
