The Discovery Of Penicillin During The World Of Medicine

The development of penicillin provided a major stepping stone for the practice of medicine, and has saved the lives of countless individuals since its synthesis.

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 wonderful discovery of Penicillin, a medicine that was discovered in 1928. This medicine was used to cure bacteria in humans. Penicillin had good results not only in the 1928, as it also still is very successful today. Penicillin had a big impact, it cured many people in the U.S. during World War II. penicillin,leads to the development of others antibiotics.

In 1928 Dr. Alexander Fleming began to sort through a pile of petri dishes containing colonies of bacteria that causes boils, sore throats, and abscesses. As he sorted through the dishes he noticed something unusual on one dish. It was dotted with colonies, and one area had a blob of mold growing. The area of mold was later identified as a rare strain of Penicillium notatum, the mold had secreted something that inhibited bacterial growth. Fleming later uncovered that this mold was capable of killing a wide range of harmful bacteria such as streptococcus, meningococcus and the diphtheria bacillus, that had played humanities. Prior to the discovery of Penicillin, Sulfa drugs were used during World War II. These drugs were name as the “wonder drug”. Although they’re still used today, Sulfa drugs were used to cure bacterial infections such as UTIs and gonorrhea. The new found drug penicillin, would cure millions and replace the use of Sulfa drugs.

     Penicillin has helped save many lives throughout the years. It has cured things like strep throat, which many people have had in their lives, syphilis, and gonorrhea. It also sparked a new wave of

World War II was a historical turning point not only for the basis of political power and war tactics, but also for drugs and medical advances. Between 1939 and 1945, new medical techniques were developed as a direct response to new weaponry. One of the more profound advances was penicillin, discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming. During the war, the drug helped reduce the overall number of amputations and

Deaths caused by infection were greatly reduced. No more ineffective amputations. Allies had their secret weapon; they just had to keep it from falling into enemy hands. Penicillin was available only to the Allied forces during World War II (Robert). “The ultimate triumph of Anglo-American efforts to mass produce penicillin during the Second World War can be said to have eclipsed the existence of similar attempts in other countries.” Although some penicillin was produced in Germany, the Germans were not successful in producing large quantities of it to treat their soldiers. German casualties were among the highest, over 5 million German soldiers died in World War II.

Jesse Lane says in Not-So-Dumb Luck, When he came back, he noticed that every dish he had left out in the open was covered in mold.” She later says, “The dish that had caught Fleming’s eye contained a staphylococci culture- in other words, it was chock full of bacteria- and while Fleming had been away, the culture had also grown a tuft of yellow-green mold.” And that was the beginning revolutionary history of penicillin. Later in the paragraph the author says, “After some experimentation, he found that the ring was bacteria free, and that the mold was a rare spore called Penicillium notatum,” Where the name penicillin comes from ”which had wafted on air currents into his lab from another floor.” If he hadn’t gone on vacation and left his lab a mess then penicillin wouldn’t be with us today saving lives.Thirdly, penicillin is a widely used medicine that kills bacteria and treats

Fleming’s work was later expanded by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain and their team at Oxford University beginning in 1938, about ten years after Fleming’s first findings. They were able to transform penicillin as a curiosity in the lab and antiseptic to the life-saving antibiotic we know it as today. Howard Florey was deemed at an early age by his older sister who was a medical student at the time to be the next “Pasteur” due to his interest in pursuing medical research. Florey then achieved much as a student at the University of Adelaide, which at that time didn’t specialize in researchers, but in preparing general practitioners. Howard then went on to receive the Rhodes Scholarship to study in England at Oxford University. He used this opportunity as a springboard to going on to study in America and return back to England to Oxford University achieve much greatness. In 1938, he became the director of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. After a few years of taking on a variety of experiments and gathering a team of trusted professionals, he spearheaded work on the self-proclaimed “Penicillin Project” after coming across and sifting

Furthermore, a scientist named Andrew J. Moyer had succeeded in increasing the yields of penicillin 10 times, and with the help of Dr. Heatley. The penicillin production quickly went available to treat the Allied soldiers wounded on D-Day. In the article “The History of Penicillin” it states, “the price dropped from nearly priceless in 1940, to $20 per dose, in July 1943, to $0.55 per dose by 1946. Because of their work, two members from the British groups were awarded the Nobel Prize, and Andrew J. Moyer was inducted into the Inventors Hall of

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

Another way penicillin changed the world is during the war, septicaemia could have happened if some of the people were operated on with supplies that had not been properly sterilized or cleaned or if bacteria was spread from one patient to another in the hospital or surgery

Many people have died in the past due to infectious diseases. A human with an infection creates another organism which reproduces inside them. Like the pest, one of the most famous diseases killed millions of people in the 14th century. The only way to kill or stop the growth of an infection or bacteria is with antibiotics. The first antibiotic ever created was the penicillin and the greatest one till now. This drug was discovered by Alexander Fleming in the 1920´s but it was introduced in the 1940´s. Scientist began testing penicillin on lab rats but eventually, it was tested in humans. A man contracted a severe infection from a scratch on his face and Penicillin was given to him where he improved dramatically. After World War II, scientists

Due to the introduction of penicillin during World War II the majority of our soldiers were able to return home to their families as healthy as they were before they left. World War II was the mightiest struggle mankind has ever seen. It killed more people, cost more money, damaged more property, affected more people, and caused more changes in nearly every country than any other war. Some researchers say that penicillin was the key top-secret weapon that helped the allies win World War II. At the end of World War II the medical advancements that had been discovered were then made available to the rest of civilization (Medicine and World War II).

The discovery of penicillin was a huge scientific advance which brought ourselves into the new era of medicine, it completely broke down the difficulties of people being able to tackle disease with just the strength of their own immune system.