Penicillin+-1928

 By Max Gonye

The antibiotic, Penicillin, was first discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. This discovery, like most, was by accident. Fleming went down to the basement of the hospital he was in, and saw he left a petri dish with a bacteria open on the table. He then noticed this blue-green mold surrounding the bacteria which he later concluded was breaking down the cells of this bacteria. Through further research he found there was an antibacterial substance in this mold fighting the bacteria. This was the birth of the most effective antibiotic for over 25 years.

The way Penicillin works is it basically breaks down bacteria cells through anti-bacteria located in Penicillin. Although Penicillin is still used frequently now, it is not as effective because of certain bacterias that have become resistant to it.

Penicillin was the first antibiotic invented that was very successfu and changed everyones life when it was first given to a patient. This drug fights a lage variety of bacterial diseases. As you can see in the war bond above it was advertised to soldiers to stop a variety of diseases. This drug was mass produced in 1944 and was fairly cheap so even the common people could use it and the best part was it wouldn't even harm the person (unlike other drugs at the time). It industrialized the medicine field in countries around the world and kept everybody much healthier. This discovery would shape the world of medicine for years to come.

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