Within this article, the author starts a story about Winston Churchill and his fight against pneumonia. The author talks about the story about penicillin saving the PM’s life, and how the father of penicillin himself, Alexander Fleming, disproved that story. The author then goes on to talk about the predecessor of penicillin: Sulfa(sulfonamide) drugs. The discovery of sulfa drugs led to a huge revolution in America, talking about how sulfa drugs saved so many American soldier and citizen lives by killing drugs. According to the U.S. military’s own analysis, the main difference of the deaths between WWI and WWII, “was the wide use of sulfa drugs.” However, as we know today, diseases can learn to resist antibiotics should we use them too often.
