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Jenner and Fleming: Two Heroes of Medicine







                                                                      Alexander Fleming was born in




                                                                Scotland in 1881. As a teenager, he



                                                                moved to London                                              Check


                                                                                                                             What did Edward Jenner use to help
                                                                and helped his                                               people with smallpox?

                                                                                                                             He used cowpox germs.
                                                                brother, a doctor.




                                                                Later, Fleming




                                                                became a doctor,



             Alexander Fleming, MD                              too.

             (1881–1955)



                                                                                                                                            London in Fleming’s time



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