My topic for the top one hundred news stories of the century is Penicillin. I choose this subject because I felt I needed to prove that it is more than just an antibiotic or just a mold. In the following paragraphs I hope to make my point clear.
Penicillin itself can be used to treat many and a wide variety of diseases. It can be used for treatment of respiratory infections to sexually transmitted diseases. We can use it on humans and animals too. The following are some disease that can be treated by Penicillin: treatment of staphylococci, osteomyelitis, supprative arthritis, bronchitis, empyema, endocarditis, furuncles, laryngotrachetis, mastitis, meningitis, otitis media, peritonitis, supprative pneumonia, burns, septicema, sinustis, tonsillitus, wounds, hemolytic streptococci, pneumococci, anaerobic streptococci, gonococci, meningococci, anaerobic clostridia, diphtheria bacilli, anthrax organisms, and the spirochetes of syphilis. So as you can see Penicillin can be used on many different diseases.
Sir Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin. Sir Alexander Fleming lived from 1881 to 1955. Fleming was a British bacteriologist who in nineteen forty-five was the co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for medicine. He shared the prize with Doctor Howard Florey and Doctor Ernest Chain, who received the prize for their work in purifying Penicillin. Sir Alexander Fleming was born on a farm in Lochfield, Scotland on August sixth eighteen eighty-one. At age thirteen he went to live with his brother, who practiced medicine, in London, England. He then got a job in a shipping company. His uncle died and left him some money and he used the money to go to medical school. He had no university diploma so he took a special exam and attended the medical school of St. Mary's Hospital. In World War One he served as an army doctor in France. So many men died during the war because of infected wounds.
While Alexander Fleming is credited with penicillin's discovery, many people contributed to the work of making penicillin the wonder drug it has come to be knows as. ... Fleming isolated the substance and named in penicillin. ... Florey began testing penicillin. ... Half the mice were also injected with penicillin. The mice injected with penicillin survived while those that were not died. ...
Penicillin Penicillin is the first naturally occurring antibiotic discovered and the first to be used therapeutically. ... Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by a Scottish Physician, Alexander Fleming. ... Penicillin did have more of an impact on the economy. ... Penicillin works by inhibiting the bacteria cell from forming a cell wall. ... In this sequence, Escherichia coli were incubated in penicillin for 30 minutes. ...
Penicillin is a mold, but not just one. ... This grew well in a tank, and doubled the amount of penicillin produced. ... That proves that the antibiotic penicillin is very powerful. ... Penicillin can be used to help many bacterial diseases. ... With the discovery of Penicillin, many lives have been saved. ...
Amazingly yesterday a "Miracle antibacterial drug" called PENICILLIN was discovered, at St. ... Alexander Fleming was looking at one of his specimens of Staphylococcus aureus (a bacteria) and he noticed there was a mold growing that is called PENICILLIN. ... How does PENICILLIN kill bacteria? PENICILLIN works by destroying the cell wall of the bacteria. ... Chemical formula C16H18N2O5S In the picture above you are looking at a mold of penicillin growing on a bacteria. ...
There are many advantages and disadvantages to the invention of penicillin and other antibiotic medicines. There are numerous rewards to the discovery of penicillin. In 1421, penicillin was used for the first time to save someone's life. ... On average, 150 million perceptions are written a year for penicillin. With the use of penicillin as a meditation, it added 10 years to everyone's life expectancy. ...
He baptizes this substance 'penicillin'.... To this day, penicillin is still being utilized. ... Summary Penicillin is the first of antibiotics and was unintentionally discovered. ... Eventually, the pharmaceutical Penicillin was introduced. ... However, without Penicillin, stronger antibiotics would not be invented. ...
ANTIBIOTICS -Antibiotics can be bacteristatic (paralyze the bacteria) or bactericidal( kill the bacteria) Major Classes of Antibiotics 1) Penicillins 2) Cephalosporing 3) Fluoroquinolones 4) Tetracyclines 5) Macrolides Penicillins - Oldest class of antibiotics - Bactercidal - Effective against bacteria that are sensitive/ susceptible to penicillins - There are 4 groups of penicillins A) Natural: eg. penicillin G&V, narrow spectrum B) Penicillinase Resistant: eg. nafcillin, it is an enzyme produced by certain bacteria that inactivates penicillin, this makes the bacteria resistan...
Certain main problem areas such as Waste Water Treatment Plants, factory farming, overusing general antibiotics (like penicillin), hospital hygiene or just hygiene in general, the difference between poor and rich medical care, use of antibiotics on crops, and the limited ways to kill bacteria enables bacteria to evolve which poses huge problems for future generations. ... For instance, penicillin used to be fairly good at treating Staphylococcus, yet studies in 1999 showed that over 90% of all Staphylococcus strains were immune to penicillin" (Bettelheim). Penicillin used to be called the mira...
The use of animals in the search for new drugs is not always reliable. Physiological differences between species can produce various results. There have been major medical break throughs without the aid of animals. X-rays were developed without the use of animals, as well as the vaccine for yellow f...
