1930 in Science - Medicine

Medicine

  • November 25 - Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary in England, achieves the first recorded cure (of an eye infection) using penicillin.
  • DPT vaccine (against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) is first used.

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