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Description
Ms. Carter describes using penicillin for the first time. Instead of being injected, it was rubbed directly on the wound and was extremely painful.
Transcription
And we moved to a place outside of Naples. And that's where we came across penicillin. We had the first penicillin there and they never knew how to use it. So what they used to do, they never injected it into the arms or the bottom, they put it into wounds and yes it hurt, it was terrible. And I remember that I used to get a flask of anesthetic, you know, liquid and get it sterilized and I'd mix it with the two and give it to them. It helped to deaden the awful pain of having that put into a raw terrible wound of a shoulder or something or a knee. Oh it was awful.