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you should not use penicillin to cure a cold because penicillin is an antibiotic and your body could build a resistant up to it and when you really do become sick you will not be able to use penicillin to cure and actual infection. Also if you are prescribed an antibiotic and you do not take the whole amount prescribed you could still carry the infection dormit in your body and your illness could return resistant to the antibiotic that was prescribed.

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