Luis Felipe de Melo Tassinari 1652978 The accident of penicillin

Since the Second World War, medicines made with penicillin are perhaps the most important ones to all the Humanity. We can use this natural chemical element to make lots of different drugs because of your antibiotics properties, which kills different kinds of bacteria. This medicine helps us to treat diseases like diphtheria, gangrene, pneumonia, syphilis and tuberculosis. This natural element was discovered in a strange mold by Alexander Fleming in a luck accident in September 1928, but only in 1940 Howard Florey and Ernst chain developed a powder from that mold, which can be used in humans. Alexander Fleming became a famous bacteriologist after he discovered the penicillin by mistake. On the other hand, he had already dedicated his life to research the wonderful drug, and in this time he made important discoveries like the Lysozyme, a substance from the tears and nasal mucus, which helps our body to kill germs and does not have collateral effects in the human body. However, the most important Flemings discovery happened when he came back from his vacations and saw a pile of Petri dishes that he left before. Alexander noted a strange mold inside the petri dishes and started to study what did was that. He concluded that the strange mold had the capacity to kill bacteria. However Fleming was not a chemistry and because that he did not know how isolate the substance from the mold for the human usage. Florey and chain started to research about the miracle mold found out by Fleming, those two Oxford University scientists using they chemistry knowledge succeeded in isolating penicillin from the fungus; developing the powder safe for humans. The mass production began fast for this medicine can be used in the war fields in the WW2. Concluding these three scientists worked together in different years and because that they won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945. Therefore the most famous today are Fleming for your finding.

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