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Penicillin: the magic bullet

Australia, 2006
film

In 1945 the Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded to three men - Alexander Fleming, Ernst Chain, and the Australian, Howard Florey - as the inventors of penici..

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A Handful of soil

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On prescription only

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