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Penicillin

Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston

Saturday Nov 28, 1942
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

In November 1942, survivors of the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston were the first burn patients to be successfully treated with penicillin.


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