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The First Use of Penicillin in the United States
TO THE EDITOR:
I read with great interest the recent publication of Grossman's personal account of the “first dose of penicillin given in the United States” (1). The 1942 case involved the successful use of systemic penicillin to treat a young woman with β-hemolytic streptococcal sepsis. The young woman survived what probably would have been a fatal infection and lived to the age of 90 years. This article also details the actions of Dr. John Fulton, a physician who was himself sick …
