Penicillin.

Last night I went to the latest event put on by the Caerwys Historical Society. It was lecture given by Dr Jeff Edwards on the history of penicillin and included some rare film footage of public information films on the drug made during the second world war. The film, complete with perfect BBC accents, told of the early development of penicillin. It was a subject I knew relatively nothing about, but clearly the discovery of this drug (almost by accident it seems) and the subsequent variations has transformed society. It was an excellent lecture and showed that this fledgling historical society is in good health.