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Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

Sulphonamide was a game-changer for maternal mortality due to puerperal infection.

It was also effective (at first) for gonorrhoea, replacing invasive and prolonged treatment. There was a short phase, post-pencillin, when it was believed that sexually-transmitted infections were 'these dying diseases'. The rise of resistant strains, among other things, proved this wrong.