🌊 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 made possible
Later turning points that leaned on Penicillin. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.
- 1943Mass-produced antibiotics. Without it, Antibiotics stay rare and experimental for another two decades; infection keeps its old grip on surgery and childbirth.
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