In 1944, True Heroes Comic Books featured the inspiring story of Dr Dante Colitti saving the life of two year old baby Patricia Malone, August 11th 1943, with some penicillin that he, the child's father and the Hearst media empire had wheedled out of a hard-nosed American medical establishment.
This was the event that made penicillin known world wide, virtually over night after 15 years of being ignored.
Colitti's hospital and Dr Dawson's hospital shared the same catchment area for patients, being only a mile apart.
News of Dawson's cures, that Spring, of a number of women with the incurable disease of SBE had spread like wildfire among the patients and staff of both hospitals , leading to Colitti trying the stuff on his dying young patient...
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