The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.
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"The therapeutic value of penicillin is enormous, but its indiscriminate use could lead to disaster."
"I was not a great scientist, but I was a careful observer."
"I have been working for many years on the problem of finding substances which would destroy microbes in the body without injuring the cells of the body."
"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exac…"
"The greatest discovery of my life was not penicillin, but the fact that I was wrong about something."
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