PC Albert Alexander was the first patient to receive the newly-discovered antibiotic in 1941.
at St Mary's Hospital in London, but scientists in Oxford developed it into a viable drug.
He was transferred to Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where he was treated with the newly-discovered antibiotic, and showed immediate improvement.However, the episode proved penicillin worked on humans and many other people who were injured during the war in the following years benefitted from the antibiotic.
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