Recollect early wartime pictures of clearly nubile young women holding milk bottles of live-giving penicillin to their chests.
Then recall war-end pictures of grave middle-aged men in white coats and pen protectors staring into instrument panels on the massive multi-storey stainless steel factory tanks making industrial penicillin.
A moral universe restored !
Wartime penicillin is a great study for feminist historians seeking to see how de-stabilizing natural penicillin and biology could be to 1930s-1940s era chemistry and gender relations ....
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