Penicillin

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 * Penicillin: The Miracle Drug ** **The first antibiotic isolated and used in treatment of bacterial diseases and infections.**

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Penicillin was one of the greatest unifying factor of the 1920's because of its historical significance in opening up the era of antibiotics, its contributions in helping fight bacterial diseases and infections in WWII (U.S.), and its continuous uses today as the "miracle drug". **

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Known illnesses that killed people easily BEFORE Penicillin: ** 
 * 1) Minor wounds that became infected
 * 2) Strep Throat
 * 3) Gonorrhea
 * 4) Scarlet Fever

****__Alexander Fleming__ ** ** __Andrew Jackson Moyer__ **  **__Dr. Howard Florey:__ **  
 * Discoverers and Contributors of Penicillin:
 * American microbiologist, perfected a method for the mass production in the United States
 * Australian pharmacologist, developed a powdery form of the medicine

__Ernst Chain__  
 * <span style="color: #743001; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">German-born British biochemist, assisted Dr. Howard Florey in developing powdery form of the medicine

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**<span style="color: #743001; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">__Sir Alexander Fleming:__ ** <span style="color: #743001; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> <span style="color: #743001; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **<span style="color: #208820; display: inline !important; text-align: left;">
 * <span style="color: #743001; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Scottish Bacteriologist, discovered a mold that killed bacteria (Penicillin)

Penicillin's Spread in The U.S. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">__** Scientists Race Against Death: **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 16px;"> An infection was as likely to kill a wounded soldier, the quicker mass production of Penicillin, the more lives that could be saved.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> __** During the war: **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 16px;"> Armed forces received 85% of the nation's production of Penicillin.

__** SAVED LIVES: **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px;">Because of the discovery of penicillin hundreds of thousands of soldiers and wounded citizens were saved

Penicillin Production
 * At first penicillin was made using old dairy equipment.


 * Hospital bedpans were used to grow mould.


 * Department of Agriculture laboratory looking for a new use for a thick liquid that was a by product from the corn-milling process.


 * When this liquid was used, 10 times the amount of penicillin was able to be produced than before.

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Today __** Penicillin is now used ALL OVER the world

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Americans take for granted the "wonder drug" called Penicillin **__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">
 * __Many derivatives have been developed to increase the usefulness of the drug

Today we can relate Penicillin to the H1N1 Vaccine__ ** <span style="color: #a31fa3; display: inline !important; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">

__Facts__ - ** The first patient was treated for streptococcal septicemia with U.S.-made penicillin - Penicillin was discovered in his laboratory in the basement of St. Mary's Hospital in London
 * March 14, 1942
 * Alexander Fleming discovery was a **** fortuitous accident. ****

Australia -first country that made the drug available to civilians **