The war against germs

Do you know of a relative or a friend who died of typhoid? Or tuberculosis? Or fever after childbirth? Not very likely, unless you were born before the 1940s. The discovery of the sulfonamides in 1936, then penicillin and streptomycin in the 1940s, and then a whole range of “cillins” and “mycins” and “floxacins” from the 1950s onwards changed all that by letting us treat most common infections.

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