@dyjstudio: Finding penicillin did not make it available to patients. Scientists still had to purify it, test it, and find a mold that could produce far more. One promising strain came from a moldy melon. The real breakthrough was making enough medicine to use. #penicillin #AlexanderFleming #antibiotics #historyofmedicine #medicalhistory

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No, it was the Egyptian who discovered the penicillin. Whenever they had wounds in their feet, they could wear mouldy shoes and their wounds could heal...
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Did you know a moldy melon played a role in penicillin’s history? A. Yes B. No
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[1] HARE R. New light on the history of penicillin.[J]. Medical History, 1982, 26(1): 1-24. [2] FLEMING A. On the Antibacterial Action of Cultures of a Penicillium, with Special Reference to their Use in the Isolation of B. influenzæ[J]. British journal of experimental pathology, 1929, 10(3): 226-236. [3] CHO H, UEHARA T, BERNHARDT T G. Beta-lactam antibiotics induce a lethal malfunctioning of the bacterial cell wall synthesis machinery[J]. Cell, 2014, 159(6): 1300-1311. [4] ABRAHAM E P, CHAIN E, FLETCHER C M, et al., Further observations on penicillin. 1941[J]. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1992, 42(1): 3-9. [5] HEATLEY N G. A method for the assay of penicillin[J]. The Biochemical Journal, 1944, 38(1): 61-65. [6] CHAIN E, FLOREY H W, ADELAIDE M B, et al., Penicillin as a chemotherapeutic agent. 1940[J]. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1993(295): 3-7. [7] MACFARLANE G. Howard Florey: The Making of a Great Scientist[M]. Oxford ; New York, 1979. [8] KATZ E. Kenneth Raper, Elisha Mitchell andDictyostelium[J]. Journal of Biosciences, 2006, 31: 195-200. [9] SERVICE U S A M. Internal medicine in World War II[M]. Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 1963.
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