Penicillin

When you hear about being sick, you usually think of medicine and maybe some cough syrup. But you have probably never thought that much of Penicillin and what it does for you, or how it was discovered, and how it was made. It was made a long time ago and has helped many people. It was also "luckily discovered" meaning they didn't invent it, they just happened to be there at the right time.

Penicillin helps many different people around the world. "Penicillin is one of the earliest discovered and widely used antibiotic agents, derived from the Penicillium mold" states The History article. In 1896 a French student in the medical field named Ernest Duchesne actually noticed the Penicillin. However Penicillin was discovered again by a bacteriologist named Alexander Fleming in the year 1928. As a result of his rediscovery his assistance Dr. Heatley had helped him come up with penicillin. When both of them were pumping air inside vats that had corn steep liquor, and other key ingredients, helped show that all of those things combined would help produce faster growth and amounts of Penicillin. It was enough that it would be more …show more content…
When he came back his eye was caught on something in his laboratory. In the article Not So Dumb Luck it says "...he noticed that every dish he had left out in the open was covered in mold." So then Alexander was looking at each dish very carefully. However, while he was looking, one particular patri dish had caught him off guard. When he looked at it closely he noticed that it was full of bacteria. It had grown "a tuft of yellow-green mold." according to Not So Dumb Luck. He had noticed one certain dish that had led to the great discovery of penicillin. But in the article, Discovery, it states "Additionally, penicillin would not have grown under the conditions in Fleming's lab." What really did