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In 1928 at St Mary's Hospital in London Alexander Fleming place a bacteria Staphylococcus in two dishes. Over awhile some airborn spores of mould landed in one of the dishes and contaminated it. Alexander noticed that the bacteria was being attacked by the mould. Alexander named this "penicillin" and wrote down all notes on it. In 1939 penicillin was noticed once again by Howard Florey and 3 collage students as they were looking for a better fighter agasint infection as the war was coming. On the 9th of July in 1941 Howard Florey came to US with a small amount of penicillin. He wanted US to help mass produce it. They sent him to a lab to help this happen. By november a labs expert inceased the yeild of penicillin by 10 times. Soon after there was a outbust in ways of doubling the amount of mould for pellicillin. In late 1943 the drug reached a mass production level, and by the end of the war many labs were making pellicillin also, and a Australian lab was the first to make and use pellicillin for cilivilian usage. |
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