Medicine Is Closely Intertwined With Warfare

Why was the invention of penicillin so important in the context of WWII? What were some other advances in medicine that were

In this reading there was many very interesting facts about penicillin. Penicillin was a breakthrough in the medical field in the 20th century. The scientist Alexander Fleming had accidentally spilled a vile of bacteria on to a plate of bacteria to his benefit he found that is had stopped the growth of bacteria. This accidental discover has benefited everyone in the world because we have to get these shots if we are infected, plus it saved many life’s in world war II. However, Penicillin is considered an antibiotic chemical that is created by living organism to stop the growth of bacteria and prevent an illness if people were to come into contact with this problem. Since the discovery and massive stock piling of this cure it has become less

The Civil War was a very eventful, horrific, terrifying, and brutal war in American History. It’s circumstances caused the lives of SO many courageous soldiers. With the help of the medical treatments or procedures that came about, several keys of life, whether daily life or life amidst war, improved. The innovation of medicine in the civil war is very important because of it’s effects on the war, modern medicine, and changes in treatment on the battlefield.

The researchers worked on the purification and chemistry of penicillin, that began intensely in 1939. To carry out a program of

Penicillin was a very important drug used in World War 2. During the war companies were forced to find a way to make penicillin on an industrial scale. This means that Penicillin was mass

Penicillin is an antibiotic used in fighting infections. A Scottish scientist named Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. One of the first examples of the power

It had the same curing properties as “M+B” (it cured infectious diseases), the only difference being that it also treated wounded soldiers. It greatly increased the survival rate of wounds and infectious diseases, and in my opinion, without Penicillin the death rate would have probably doubled or tripled! Like “M+B” the demand for Penicillin boomed during World War Two, and the mass production of the drug increased greatly.

Medicine in World War one was very different from what we have today. Methods are much safer and sanitary than they used to be during the First of the world wars. Due to extended periods of time in trenches, lack of resources on hand, and new kinds of weaponry, World War One was one of the deadliest wars to date. This war would be the beginning of many modern methods in the health industry and influence how we look at medicine today.

Howard Florey, a future Nobel Laureate , and three of his partners at Oxford University began research on penicillin and found penicillin ability to swiftly kill deadly bacteria. Unfortunately the ongoing war against Germany in World War II had stretched the Allies resources to far so when it became time for human testing the importance was placed on weapons not medicine. Lucky, Florey had had a Flame ignited in him to finish the research and save lives. Florey asked the United States for help and was referred to the Peoria Labs and on July 9, 1941, Florey and his colleague Norman Heatley arrived in the U.S.A. along with one of the most important inventions in history, a small of penicillin for the Americans to work on. After a intense worldwide search for the best strain of penicillin it was a cantaloupe in a market Peoria itself that was improved and modeled for use outside of the lab. Finally, on November 26, 1941, Andrew J. Moyer, with assistance from one Dr. Heatley, had succeeded!

Penicillin had begun to be mass produced in the United States and sent over to help wounded Allied soldiers. Florey traveled to North Africa where he conducted his trials and save lives. The Australian government was now manufacturing penicillin while the U.S. and Britain were as well. Since it was government, they were able to be informed of the newest techniques for producing the substance. Florey’s team took a visit to the Australian laboratory to learn these up to date methods of production. This may be the case to why the 1945 version of penicillin was about 20 times more potent than the 1939 version. This deep fermentation penicillin was established 1945 at the Castle Bernard. Before, it was developed in a less efficient process by

They were working on it around World War II, they believe that the medicine had potential. They wanted to find a way to use the medicine on humans to help reduce the bacteria infections in a wound. When they did find a way, it mass-produced and used in the war. The medicine saved many lives. The scientist Florey, Chain, and Fleming were awarded the Nobel Prize. Fleming was alone credited with the penicillin discovery. Even though the discovery of penicillin was a simple accident, but all the series of events that led up to being a very useful medicine.

The onset of World War II made the drug very essential to the recovery of soldiers. It prevented millions of deaths and amputations, and the number of units sold in the United States increased from 400 million to 650 billion units per month in just two years. The number of casualties would have been drastically larger without penicillin since minor injuries would have proliferated into fatal infections. This antibiotic not only had short-term effects, but also had long-term effects since penicillin remains the most widely used drug today. Strep throats can be easily and cheaply treated now, but around seventy years ago, people would have died because of this

Penicillin is an antibiotic medicine used to treat harmful bacteria and infections inside and outside of your body. Alexander Fleming, a bacteriologist, discovered it in the early 1900s. As stated by Brittany Connors on page 125 of “The Discovery of Penicillin: The True Story”, “Fleming often admitted that he discovered Penicillin by accident, and that all of the work was done by nature.” Although the finding of this cure may have been an accident, it’s use case has helped save many lives and keep many from sickness. There were numerous events that led to the discovery and development of this treatment such as Fleming’s messy laboratory, Florey’s realization of the medical potential of Penicillin, and Moyer’s success in raising the production yield.

“In 1938, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain began to study penicillin” (Connors 126). This is important because it means extensive research was being done to figure out a way for penicillin to be applied on humans. “Part of the reason for their increased effort in discovering how penicillin could be used on humans was that a drug was needed to reduce bacterial infections in soldiers’ wounds” (Connors 126). This means there was a need for the development of penicillin, this fact probably motivated the scientists. In the end, without the development of penicillin, it could not have become such a widely used

By November 26, 1941, Andrew J. Moyer, the lab’s expert on nutrition of molds had increased the use, and knowledge of penicillin 10 times, with the help of Dr. Heatley. The medicine was again used to help heal soldiers wounds. Not long after the discovery, penicillin was showed to be the most effective antibacterial agent to this day (The History of Penicillin 3-8).