Penicillin, Nobel Lecture
- Kind
- Speech
- Date
- December 11, 1945
- Publisher
- Nobel
- Retrieved
- Nov 21, 2013
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1945 Warning of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance
But I would like to sound one note of warning. Penicillin is to all intents and purposes non-poisonous so there is no need to worry about giving an overdose and poisoning the patient. There may be a danger, though, in underdosage. It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by…