🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if Penicillin had gone differently?
1928 · britain
The first true antibiotic turns fatal infections into minor ones.
If it had gone differently: A scratch can still kill you; childbirth, surgery and pneumonia keep their old death rates.
What it set up
- 1943Mass-produced antibiotics, Antibiotics stay rare and experimental for another two decades; infection keeps its old grip on surgery and childbirth.
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