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Penicillin

Cecil George Paine attempted to use penicillin to treat sycosis barbae

1930
Royal Infirmary, Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

In 1930, Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Royal Infirmary in Sheffield, attempted to use penicillin to treat sycosis barbae, eruptions in beard follicles, but was unsuccessful.


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