Guns, not roses – here's the true story of penicillin's first patient
A professor of pharmacology tells the true story of Albert Alexander, the first patient to be treated with penicillin.
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A professor of pharmacology tells the true story of Albert Alexander, the first patient to be treated with penicillin.
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Albert Alexander was dying. World War II was raging, and this police officer of the county of Oxford, England, had developed a severe case of sepsis a
Albert Alexander was the first known person treated with penicillin. While his ultimately fatal case is well known in medical histories, the cause of his illness has been misattributed for decades.