Cecil George Paine achieved the first recorded cure with penicillin
Tuesday Nov 25, 1930 Royal Infirmary, Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Moving on to ophthalmia neonatorum, a gonococcal infection in infants, Cecil George Paine achieved the first recorded cure with penicillin, on November 25, 1930. He then cured four additional patients (one adult and three infants) of eye infections, and failed to cure a fifth.
