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February marks the 75th anniversary of the first therapeutic dose of penicillin given to a patient in 1941 at Briscoe Ward, Radcliffe Infirmary.

Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in the 1940s. © Oxford University Hospital Foundation Trust
Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in the 1940s.