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What African American slave discovered penicillin but got no credit?
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∙ 14y ago
This is a myth taken from the book The Terrible War in which the author states that a woman thought that Harriet Tubman discovered penicillin. . There was no mystery slave. Alexander Fleming is credited with discovering how penicillin works and publishing the results. However using bread mold to treat injuries is a medical practice that has been around for a very long time. People in the middle ages used this all the time.
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