It should not surprise me that the invention of penicillin resulted in public moralizers wasting breath and ink, worrying about the pernicious social effects of curing previously-fatal venereal diseases. It should not surprise me, but it’s still jarring to see:

the curse of penicillin

You can read the associated article in Cavalcade, the Australian men’s magazine where it appeared in late 1944.

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