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Thanks to Penicillin - He Will Come Home.
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Ad for use of Penicillin depicts a medic kneeling over a wounded soldier.

Credit: Research and Development Division, Schenley Laboratories, Inc., Lawrenceburg, Indiana

By 1944, laboratories across the country were stepping up their production of penicillin, including Schenley in Indiana, whose advertisement stated that "When the thunderous battles of this war have subsided to pages of silent print in a history book, the greatest news event of World War II may well be the discovery and development of penicillin."

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