The Events That Led To The Discovery Of Penicillin

Penicillin was a big part of medicine. It also changed how it was practiced. 80 years ago we had no antibiotics. So if you're exposed to a virus, infection, etc.

Penicillin is an antibiotic that is used to treat infections caused by Bacteria. One may think that Penicillin has been around for a long time however, it was

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

A majority of pharmaceutical companies thought that penicillin was to be a cure for any infection. At first no one expected that bacteria would mutate and become stronger. Initially pharmaceutical companies stopped doing research for new antibiotics and concentrated on other areas. As the result,

     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

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.

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

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

Antibiotics were introduced to people in 1929, which could restrain the normal growth of the other bacteria called antimicrobial activity, was found by British scientist Alexander Fleming by coincidence. Then scientists used antibiotics, to cure injured soldiers and got great success during the World War. With the efforts of many scientists in the past half of the century, thousand kinds of antibiotics are found, which could be natural, semi-synthetic or synthetic, and many of them are used in medical field successfully.

Howard Florey’s, it wasn’t used for medicinal purposes. Dr. Florey and Ernst Chain experimented with penicillin as they believed there was medical potential. Quoted from “The Discovery of Penicillin: The True Story”, “. . . in discovering how penicillin could be used on humans was that a drug was needed to reduce bacterial infections in soldiers’ wounds.” Because the research was during World War II, they safely administered penicillin, once it was discovered how, saving countless lives. Later, expert on the nutrition of molds, Andrew J. Moyer with Dr. Norman Heatley’s assistance increased the yields of the mold ten times. Penicillin was discovered to have extremely beneficial uses as it was determined the most effective antibacterial agent to

Within the past century, the development and study of antibiotics and medications have increased tremendously. Drugs such as penicillin helped treat many fallen and injured soldiers in the war. But how did this drug suddenly take rise?

There was a problem at first as it was hard to produce large amounts of penicillin, so when penicillin was first used in the U.S.A, they used nearly half of their supply. Only in 1943 penicillin started to be produced in large amounts. There were arguments about who should get the most credit for penicillin even though Howard Florey, Alexander Fleming and Florey’s co-worker Ernst Chain all shared the Nobel Prize in 1945. Alexander Fleming was knighted in 1994, during WWII.