Word: penicillin
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...London summer of 1928, an open window in a hospital lab lets in a spore that settles on a staphylococcus-culture dish left unwashed. A mold grows and contaminates the staphylococcus. The lab user returns. Because he's bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, and because his lab has not been cleaned, penicillin is discovered...
Weinstein was influential in promoting the initial use of penicillin and encouraging doctors to prescribe antibiotics...