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Jenner and Fleming: Two Heroes of Medicine












                                                                                        One day, Fleming came into



                                                                                 his lab. He saw something



                                                                                    adj. different from what is normal
                                                                                 strange
                                                                                 strange. One dish of bacteria had


                                                                                                                                                        mold
                                                                                 fuzzy, blue stuff called mold


                                                                                    n. a soft substance that develops on the surface of damp things
                                                                                 growing on it. No bacteria were



                                                                                 near the mold. Something in the




                                                                                 mold had killed the bacteria!

             Fleming looked at bacteria under

             a microscope.






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