Talk:Discovery of penicillin

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This article is unclear and would benefit from a more chronological restructuring

Latest comment: 9 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

A somewhat confusing article currently, the time skips around in years. Generally histories should be written in order of occurrence in order to follow it. For example there is a reference to something happening in 1941 then all the way up to 1966, then the next paragraph starts with something about "In 1939, 10 years after the use at St. Mary's...

The current article states that in 1941 the British medical journal suggested that penicillin was just some novelty, it immediately follows that in 1939 a team of scientists spent a ton of time and effort isolating and identifying it.

Just the whole cadence of the entire article feels off and needs to be rearranged. There's bunch of holes in the article in how it was discovered, eventually recognized for utility, and ultimately mass produced, instead of a clear linear timeline that can be followed in a single reading. 173.199.247.114 (talk) 08:03, 8 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

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