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In 1941, Albert Alexander, a policeman in Oxford, England, was the first patient to ever be treated with an antibiotic. While tending to his garden, he had been scratched by a rose a scratch that quickly became infected by bacteria, probably Staphylococcus aureus with an admixture of various Streptococci, and turned septic. The sepsis spread, caused the patient’s head to swell with abscesses that necessitated the removal of one eye; in short, he was on the verge
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