Potato chips, Silly Putty, Penicillin and Corn Flakes are all accidental inventions but only one of these mistakes have saved thousand of lives. That’s Penicillin. Penicillin is a medicine that is used worldwide and there are reasons for how this came to be, those reasons are: Alexander Fleming is messy in his lab, Andrew J. Moyer and Dr. Heatley found a way to increase the yields of Penicillin ten times, and because, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain found a way to use Penicillin in humans.
To Start off, there are several reasons why Penicillin is used all around the world and one reason is that Alexander Fleming is messy in his lab. According to the text “ Not-So-Dumb Luck by Jess Lane” “ When bacteriologist Alexander Fleming let for vacation one day in September of 1928, he left a mess in his laboratory. When he came back, he noticed that every dish he had left out in the open was covered in mold. He examined each dish closely to see if any hadn’t been contaminated. Suddenly, Flemings attention was drawn to one particular dish “. This dish had a Staphylococci culture and around it was a ring of Penicillium notatum. This is important for Penicillin to be a medicine used all around the world because, this is what Florey and Chain used to create Penicillin and which was used to treat …show more content…
According to the text “ The Discovery of Penicillin: The True Story” “ When they finally determined way for penicillin to be safely administered to humans, the drug was mass-produced and used on the war front. It saved many lives.” This excerpt from the text shows that Florey and Chain developed a safe way for humans to take Penicillin. Since Penicillin had been proven to be effective in the war ( WWII ) more people started to take Penicillin and it had to be mass produced. That is another reason how Penicillin became a household
To Start off, there are several reasons why Penicillin is used all around the world and one reason is that Alexander Fleming is messy in his lab. According to the text “ Not-So-Dumb Luck by Jess Lane” “ When bacteriologist Alexander Fleming let for vacation one day in September of 1928, he left a mess in his laboratory. When he came back, he noticed that every dish he had left out in the open was covered in mold. He examined each dish closely to see if any hadn’t been contaminated. Suddenly, Flemings attention was drawn to one particular dish “. This dish had a Staphylococci culture and around it was a ring of Penicillium notatum. This is important for Penicillin to be a medicine used all around the world because, this is what Florey and Chain used to create Penicillin and which was used to treat …show more content…
According to the text “ The Discovery of Penicillin: The True Story” “ When they finally determined way for penicillin to be safely administered to humans, the drug was mass-produced and used on the war front. It saved many lives.” This excerpt from the text shows that Florey and Chain developed a safe way for humans to take Penicillin. Since Penicillin had been proven to be effective in the war ( WWII ) more people started to take Penicillin and it had to be mass produced. That is another reason how Penicillin became a household