As early as 1930s, thousands of people died of dysentery, pneumonia, typhus, pulmonary plague, and sepsis was a death sentence. «When I woke up at dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly did not plan a revolution in medicine by my discovery of the world’s first antibiotic or killer-bacterium,» wrote in his diary Alexander Fleming, the man who invented penicillin. The idea to use microbes in the fight against microbes appeared in the XIX century. Scientist already then knew that in order to combat wound complications, one must learn to paralyze microbes that cause these complications, and that it is …
