The Emergence of the Antibiotic Age The origination of the first antibiotic, known as penicillin, was initially discovered accidentally by a sagacious, submissive bacteriologist who is now known primarily for this monumental breakthrough; his name is Alexander Fleming. Before this discovery was made, the risks of obtaining bacterial infections were substantially immense and unpreventable. Every doctor was helpless since there was ultimately nothing that they could do to prevent the infection from spreading. They did, however, use antiseptics to rid the body of these bacterial infections, but this incorrect treatment process was soon proven, by Fleming, to do more harm than good. Due to Alexander Fleming’s discovery, millions of lives have
