Fact 1
Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6, 1881.
Fact 2
He attended medical school in London and graduated in 1906. He studied bacteriology.
Fact 3
Fleming assisted in battlefield hospitals in France during World War I (1911 – 1918) where he observed soldiers dying of septicemia or some infection in spite of surviving initial battlefield wounds.
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