Topical and local antiseptics versus life-saving antibiotics

When did 'the miracle of penicillin' , as opposed to just penicillin itself - really begin ?

If your life is in imminent danger from a massive bacterial infection your medical team may well use antibiotics topically (around the skin next to an opening in the skin) or locally (inside that opening).

But unless your doctors are criminally insane, they will not limit their use of antibiotics to these two methods.

Help celebrate Manhattan's 75 years of life-saving penicillin Oct 16 1940 --- Oct 16 2015

Manhattan gave the world's first shots of life-saving penicillin , seventy five years ago next October 16th (2015).

And if Manhattan and New York City is too damn modest to blow its own horn , well we in the rest of the world should start by thanking Manhattan for all the good penicillin and other antibiotics have done for us in the three quarters of a century since.

Starting January first next year, let us start sending cards, phone calls and online* messages to the mayor of New York City to thank Manhattan for changing our world for the better forever.