Penicillin: just in time

Sijtsema, W.Y.

Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 141(51): 2517-2518

1997


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2162
PMID: 9555145
Document Number: 477206
In the attic of his home the author found papers concerning the case history of a woman who in the first days after the liberation, in April-May 1945, suffered from a severe form of puerperal sepsis. The woman recovered completely after treatment with a totally new drug: penicillin, obtained from the medical supplies of the allied British forces. She probably was the first patient treated with this antibiotic in the Netherlands.

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