Sulfanilamide was discovered by an German biochemist. In 1932 he tested red die with a slightly changed chemical makeup and he found that is was effective. He then tried it on his daughter who was dying from a streptococcal infection and noticed she had major improvements and made a full recovery. However penicillin was discovered in a much more different way. Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered germ-killing properties in a secret “mold juice” secreted by penicillium.…
Some historians credit sulfanilamide with helping the Allied forces claim victory of World War II because it kept their soldiers healthy. Sir Alex Fleming, a bacteriologist form Scotland, discovered penicillin in 1906. Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Walter Florey purified penicillin to use it for research trials on humans to be used as an antibiotic. The three men received a Nobel Prize for their work. Pfizer, a leading pharmaceutical company, mass produced penicillin to protect soldiers from wounds that could lead to infection and possibly gangrene.…
Called ‘M+B 693’ it was used as a treatment for sore throats, pneumonia, and gonorrhea. A development of ‘M+B 693’ was ‘M+B 760’. Both proved very effective as treatments against infections. However, the very nature of war meant that both treatments were needed in far greater quantities than during peacetime. While penicillin had been discovered pre-war by Sir Alexander Fleming, it took the war to force companies to develop a way of making the highly effective medicine on an industrial scale.…
SOURCE-BASED ESSAY To what extent did the discovery of Penicillin in 1928 affect people and soldiers in World War II in 1945? The discovery of penicillin affected people and soldiers positively in World War II in 1948 to a greater extent as it is seen as the greatest accomplishment in medicine history because it saved thousands of lives during a time of need in World War II. Alexander Fleming is known for the discovery of penicillin.…
Once he got the medicine he Churchill said “this admirable M+B which i did not suffer any inconvenience, was used at the earliest moment and after a weeks over the intruders were repulsed the medicine.” Other medicine used during this time was sulfanilamide, penicillin,atabrine,plasma and morphine. The main two drugs that were used was penicillin and morphine. Penicillin is a chemical produced antibiotic it was discovered in the twentieth century. Penicillin was used to treat infections.…
Most of the many inventions from World War II are still in use today. Many lives were forever changed because of the new ideas brought to us during this time period. During World War II, many new inventions and innovations were created that impacted America forever. Many famous and important inventors created their most well-known creations during World War II. Inventions such as penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the microwave are only very few of the inventions that the mastermind inventors created during World War II.…
Weeks later the bacteria had exhibited antibacterial properties and was especially effective on pathogenic strains. This would urge fleming to bring this to other universities and further research. In 1925 Fleming published his work in the British journal of pathology where he talked about its abilities to kill bacteria that cause strep throat and other pathogens. The article had led Oxford university to start research on the substance.…
Since the development of penicillin, countless lives have been saved over the years but over-prescribing and misuse of the medication has played a large role in the antibiotic resistance crisis. As a result, resistant strains of S. aureus have grown and spread into the community, some even showing resistance to multiple antibiotics (Ventola, 2015). Prior to the discovery of penicillin, death due to bacterial infections was quite common. When penicillin was first introduced to the public in the 1940's, it was found to be very effective at curing bacterial illnesses and also played an immense role in controlling infections during WWII. 10 years after it's introduction to the public, the first case of penicillin resistant S. aureus was…
Thesis statement Penicillin was the first antibiotic created. It helped fight the spread of disease and infections saving millions of lives. body.…
But in 1870 the French chemist Louis Pasteur which saw the difference between microbes and disease. By discovering that they created vaccines against rabies and anthrax and discovered the process called pasteurization. “The bacteria that caused tuberculosis a respiratory disease that claimed…
The first mass use of Penicillin was D-Day and was found to be very effective on gangrene…
Heatly brought up the idea of Penicillin all the way back in March of 1940. “Laboratory and clinical studies have shown the Penicillin is highly effective against the Hemolytic Streptococcus.” (Scarlet Fever Defeated wit Penicillin, Page 1) Howard Florey studied chemotherapeutic effects of Penicillin by infecting four of eight mice with streptomyces Pyogenes. Howard Florey stated that, “The mice treated with Penicillin survived, whereas the other four died within fifteen hours.” Another scientist named Henry Dawson and his co-workers accepted the antibiotic grounds of Penicillin in September when he “took a bold step and injected Penicillin into a patient at Columbia Presbyterian…
Dalise Atwell BIO 212 Dr. Boles Excelsior College Penicillin and its Impact on Microbiology Penicillin has saved many lives past and current. “Before the discovery and use of penicillin, infectious diseases had been the leading cause of death throughout history. Furthermore, the therapeutic tools available for treating infections were few and of limited use. ”(Kardos 2011) Penicillin has been the drug of choice when treating many diseases.…
For more than 70 years, antibiotics have been used to treat bacterial infections of the body. The first appearance of this life changing medicine, was in the 1940’s on the battlefield. This medicine was named penicillin, the drug saved many from the brink of death, by fighting bacterial diseases; from then on antibiotics changed the face of medicine. Infection was no longer an impregnable wall that had to be broken down before the real treatment could begin, infections could be treated on site, at moments notice. As time passed, the world became co-dependent on the use of antibiotics to treat all of the body 's infections, and was repeatedly misused.…
The use of antibiotics should be restricted to the public, due to the fact that, antibiotics often: affect the wrong bacteria, do not treat the viruses, and are often overused. Antibiotics were created in order to fight off bacterial infections in the body, in the early 1940’s. According to, A Brief History of Antibiotics, “Alexander Fleming, was the first scientist to discover one of the first antibiotics known as penicillin” (BBC…