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Hitler's penicillin.

Milton Wainwright1.   

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During the Second World War, the Germans and their Axis partners could only produce relatively small amounts of penicillin, certainly never enough to meet their military needs; as a result, they had to rely upon the far less effective sulfonamides. One physician who put penicillin to effective use was Hitler's doctor, Theodore Morell. Morell treated the Führer with penicillin on a number of occasions, most notably following the failed assassination attempt in July 1944. Some of this penicillin appears to have been captured from, or inadvertently supplied by, the Allies, raising the intriguing possibility that Allied penicillin saved Hitler's life.

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Year:  2004        PMID: 15259203     DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2004.0037

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Perspect Biol Med        ISSN: 0031-5982            Impact factor:   1.416


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