Penicillin Research Paper

The widely used antibiotic medicine, Penicillin, was discovered all because of an accident that was made. When Alexander Fleming(a scottish physician) came back to his laboratory from a long vacation, found what would soon save millions of lives world wide. In an article written by Jesse Lane, it says that Fleming looked at a plate that was full of bacteria. But he also saw this yellow green mold, so he experimented and found that the ring was bacteria free, and that the mold was a rare spore called Penicillium notatum. In history penicillin is one of the earliest discovered widely used antibiotic agents. Penicillin became a medicine not by Alexander Fleming but by Dr. Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. Penicillin then went on to save many lives in perfect time during the war.

Alexander Fleming said that sometimes one finds something that one was not looking for, and he was absolutely right. He himself found one of the most widely used medicines ever, all because of a sloppy mistake. So when he discovered penicillin and told the world many scientists began studying and

When Alexander Fleming published his experiments with penicillin, the Australian doctor set a goal to make this for mass medical use. So Florey and a scientist named Norman Heatley came to the U.S came with a small amount of penicillin to try and figure out how to grow in mass quantities. In an article written by Mary Bellis, it states that air was pumped deep into vats containing corn steep liquor, and other ingredients made penicillin grow larger amounts and faster. And in only 3 months they had succeeded in producing mass amounts of penicillin and fast. In 1943, multiple clinical trials were performed and penicillin was the most effective antibacterial agent to date. All, thanks to Florey, Heatley, and many other working in the lab, penicillin would begin to be used