Penicillin is a drug that was found on accident by bacteriologist named Alexander Fleming. This drug is used worldwide as a drug to help treat a variety of bacterial infections such as ear, nose, or throat infections.
II and III. The Discovery of Penicillin/Biography of Discoverer
Alexander Fleming- (1881-1955)
Alexander Fleming was born in Scotland on August 6th, 1881. Alexander Fleming grew up as a farmer due to his fathers death after owning a farm. When Alexander graduated from his school, he had such high scores on his tests that he could choose any medical school he wanted. So he decided to study bacteriology at St. Mary's University in London. At the university, he began studying antibiotic enzymes that would attack and kill various types of bapcteria.But when World War I started, he had to serve as a captain in the Army Medical Corps. But while he was treating the injured soldiers, he became frustrated when the soldiers would die from the simplest types of bacteria. He returned to London in 1915. He had many experiments going at once, it became very cluttered, so in 1928 while he was organizing everything, he examined a pole of Petrie dishes before he threw them away. When examining a certain one, he noticed that mold was growing on that dish and that the mold had interrupted and killed a staphylococcus culture. He took a sample of this mold and found it in the penicillium family. He named it penicillin and found it could be used to kill bacterias that were harmful to man.IV. Impact on the world/ humanity
Penicillin is now used worldwide as a drug to kill ear, nose, and throat infections and other types of bacterials infections. It is still used around the world today, but it made its firs
t impact when World War II started (1939-1945). Dr. Alexander's results of this 'wonder drug' started to become a widespread of good results, so the United States used Alexander's miracle drug and produced enough to treat all of their soldiers.penicillin also started a new era of antibiotics. Many scientists heard about this miracle drug and started doing tests, which led to many other scientific discoveries of other antibiotics. This image is an example of how people in the United States loved penicillin because it would bring their loved ones home safe from the war.V. Journal article review
Journal article link: http://www.questiaschool.com/read/5001398458?title=Microbial%20Menace
This journals article is about how Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 and also how he paten the idea. It also talks about how Howard Florey and Ernst Chain made it possible to mass produce penicillin in the early 1940's when World War I was starting and they had to provide thousands of soldiers with new evolutionary medicine. It also mentions in the video stated below how Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin accidentally and the mass production of it during WWII.
VIDEO:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEePs5nc-fY
VI. References
1) Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin: (2002 Pinkerton, JC)http://www.essortment.com/all/alexanderflemin_rmkm.htm
2) Penicillin and it's use worldwide: http://ezinearticles.com/?Penicillin-Antibiotics-Classification---Uses-and-Side-Effects&id=401820
3) Journal article: http://www.questiaschool.com/read/5001398458?title=Microbial%20Menace
4) Images 1 and 2 retrieved from: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1028&bih=775&q=penicillin&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
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