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The Patient Who Got Half of America's Penicillin in 1942 (Episode 6 Short)
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The first Oxford patient began to improve within a day in 1941, but the supply ran out and he died. In 1942 a dying patient named Anne Miller got half of all the penicillin in America, her fever broke by morning, and she lived to ninety. By D-Day, factories had about 2.3 million doses ready. Photographs are from the Library of Congress, including New Haven Hospital, where Anne Miller was…