The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.
— Alexander Fleming Modern

Discovery of penicillin

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Warning about antibiotic misuse in his Nobel Prize lecture

Date / Period

1945

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Controversial

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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1945/fleming/lecture/

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