A Pre-Penicillin World: What Did Humans Do Before Antibiotics?
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Before antibiotics revolutionized medicine, a minor cut or a common infection like pneumonia could easily be fatal. What did humans do before antibiotics to combat illness? The answer lies in a combination of folk wisdom, herbal remedies, and medical practices that, in retrospect, were a mix of the helpful and the outright dangerous.
