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.…
According to Gray (1998), penicillin was widely available as an effective cure for syphilis in the year 1940, but the…
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.…
The end of the film stated, “there were no known adverse effects that resulted from the treatment of penicillin”. This makes me wonder if the notion that penicillin would harm or kill those patients that were in the latent stage of the disease was just another lie to justify the study or did the doctors really believe the treatment was harmful?…
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.…
Results After testing the absorbance of Control and Treatment with Penicillin and Streptomycin cultures over a 160-minute time period, three phenomena for the three different cultures were recorded and made into the graphs below. An upward trend of the absorbance in the Control culture as time progresses can be observed. Compared to the upward sloping absorbance curve of Control Treatment, both absorbance curves of Penicillin Treatment and Streptomycin Treatment have different directions of trends after 80 minutes the treatments were added. For the culture with Penicillin treatment, before the treatment was added, the absorbance increases at a steady rate until 80 minutes; it started and kept decreasing after 80 minutes, which is the time Penicillin was added. For the culture with Streptomycin treatment, the trend shows that absorbance increases at a steady speed prior to 80 minutes, but after the 80 minutes, which is the time the Streptomycin was added, the rate of absorbance increases at a decreasing rate.…
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.…
Antibiotics were a pivotal discovery which saved many lives during epidemics and pandemics over the recent centuries. During the 1920’s a scientist named Alexander Fleming was working as the professor of bacteriology in London at St. Mary's Hospital. Alexander was working on staphylococcus and had left some on the table which got contaminated. Later a colony was spotted in one of the samples resembling a white fluffy mass which multiplied rapidly and caused the staphylococcus to become transparent.…
He attended 3 schools before moving to London including Louden Moor School, Darvel School, and Kilmarnock Academy. In London he attended Polytechnic School and St. Mary’s School. Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin in 1928. Penicillin was made from a Penicillium notatum mold. In 1940 we could use penicillin…
This was the first effective sulphonamide that could be used to treat numerous infections such as sore throats, pneumonia, and gonorrhea. The medicine was required in large quantities for war usage. This was the first time since World War One that medicinal production was necessary for the battlefield (Trueman). Also at this time, Penicillin was discovered by Sir Alexander Flemming, which was so effective that it forced companies to produce it on an industrial scale. Howard Florey and Ernst Chain are credited with the industrialization of Penicillin for battle use.…
Professors in charge of the experiment even gave local doctors a list of the patients, and told them not to treat those men. The study continued for an unplanned 40 years. Even when penicillin (an antibiotic) became available in 1935 and was proven an effective cure for syphilis, these doctors did not include it on the treatments, but instead continued to use the men in this horrifying project. As a result of this study, 423 medicine from related complications of the study, and as a result, many wives and children were also infected with syphilis and suffered its devastating outcome. In 1972, people became aware of the situation and the study ended.…
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.…
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…