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Antibiotics In Xx-Century

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Antibiotics - one of the finest inventions of the XX century in the field of medicine. Modern people do not always realize that, no matter how much they owe it to the therapeutic formulations. Mankind in general very quickly gets used to the amazing achievements of the science, and sometimes need to make some effort to imagine life as it was, for example, before the invention of TV, radio or engine. As quickly came into our lives a huge family of a variety of antibiotics, the first of which was penicillin. Today, it seems surprising that in the 30-ies of XX century, each year tens of thousands of people have died of dysentery that pneumonia in many cases ended in deaths that sepsis was a real scourge
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