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Penicillin: the First Miracle Drug Petri Dish of Penicillium Notatum Sir Alexander Fleming * Many of you are here only because penicillin saved your life, or the life of one of your parents or grandparents. Penicillins ability to cure people of many once-fatal bacterial infections has saved so many lives that it is easy to understand why it was once called a miracle drug. Antibiotics are chemicals, effective at very low concentrations, created as part of the life process of one organism, which can kill or stop the growth of a disease-causing microbe--a germ. In 1929, at St. Marys Hospital in