He Tested the First Antibiotic on His Dying Daughter
20th Century

He Tested the First Antibiotic on His Dying Daughter

A German doctor deliberately infected himself with a deadly bacteria in 1929 to prove antibiotics could work—and nearly died proving medicine's future.

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Medical HistoryWorld War IIGermanyScientific DiscoveryNazi GermanyAntibioticsPharmaceutical IndustryFamilyEthicsNobel Prize

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