How to Use penicillin in a Sentence
penicillin
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By D-Day, 90% of the penicillin shipped to the war front was made by Pfizer.
— John Lamattina, STAT, 30 Apr. 2020 -
The advances that came out of World War II start with penicillin.
— Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024 -
But by the 1940s, penicillin was found to have a near-perfect cure rate for the disease.
— Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2019 -
Back at the house, Ellie injects Joel with the penicillin, then lays with him.
— Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023 -
David tells James to return to the camp and bring back two bottles of penicillin and a syringe.
— Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023 -
Elortegui said the mold involved is of the same family as penicillin.
— al, 27 Sep. 2019 -
Even though penicillin had been proven to treat syphilis by 1947, these men were denied the treatment.
— Jason Ashe, The Conversation, 24 June 2019 -
The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928 changed the course of medicine.
— Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2022 -
What’s the value of the most important medicine since the invention of penicillin?
— James MacKintosh, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2020 -
Some of those drugs include penicillin, Prozac, Zyprexa and Humulin.
— Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2019 -
He was given the last rites by a local priest and was only saved by the first penicillin shipments that reached Italy.
— Reagan Alexander, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2019 -
The hot toddy is not penicillin (neither is the Penicillin, for that matter!).
— M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023 -
Even when penicillin became widely used to treat syphilis in 1947, it was not offered to the test subjects.
— NBC News, 3 Dec. 2020 -
Ten years later penicillin was found to be a suitable treatment for syphilis.
— Jasmine Browley, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024 -
Whether it’s homemade or store-bought, a little Jewish penicillin will go a long way.
— Arielle Kaplan, sun-sentinel.com, 31 July 2019 -
The project went on for 40 years, even after penicillin became available.
— Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al, 23 Mar. 2021 -
Pfizer is the nation’s sole supplier of the penicillin shot.
— Bymike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 8 Nov. 2023 -
The newborn is started on an IV treatment with penicillin.
— Bracey Harris, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023 -
There’s homemade penicillin, mold scraped off rotten fruit, an old Martha recipe.
— Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2022 -
At least in the Guatemala study, the victims were treated with penicillin since its purpose was to gauge the effectiveness of the treatment.
— Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2021 -
The use of broad-spectrum penicillins—the most common type of antibiotics—increased by 36%.
— Time, 26 Mar. 2018 -
As penicillin was used to treat infections, cases declined in the 1950s.
— Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024 -
As penicillin was used to treat infections, cases declined in the 1950s.
— Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024 -
But this could not have happened, as penicillin was not yet widely available.
— Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024 -
Nothing against Jewish penicillin, but there’s more to life than matzo ball soup.
— Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 15 Oct. 2021 -
Each dose of injectable penicillin can cost hundreds of dollars.
— Catherine Sweeney, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024 -
Each dose of injectable penicillin can cost hundreds of dollars.
— Catherine Sweeney, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024 -
The government took over all production of penicillin when war broke out.
— Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019 -
The same strain is still used to manufacture penicillin today, Price says.
— Jim Daley, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021 -
Chemical drugs such as aspirin or penicillin are small and easily absorbed from the gut into the bloodstream.
— Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
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