Penicillin

bacterium is responsible for causing several diseases in human such as pneumonia, urinary tract infection, Meningitis, wound infection, and blood infection [2]. Many classes of antibiotics such as Aminoglycosides, Carbapenems, Macrolides, and Penicillins are used to treat these infections. However, A. baumannii known as Multidrug resistant Actinobacter baumannii (MRAB) which gives…

The assigned reading of this week was on chapter 10, titled Public health research ethic: Is non-exploitation the new principle for population based research ethics? The author begins defining public health research as to what the society do to assure the conditions in which we live are considered healthy. It goes over how the codes and principles of ethics were few until the 1980s, and the importance for setting morale and rules in conducting research. The author covers the Belmont Principles…

In 1922, British scientist Alexander Fleming found an enzyme, i.e. lysozyme in the nasal secretion, can defend the microbes. Six years later, he finally extracted penicillin. However, this important discovery didn’t begin to be applied to clinical use until 1944.In 1932, the scientists of Bayer AG occasionally found Prontosil, a red diazo compound, which is effective towards streptococcus infection as well as aureus…

that they were just a study group for natural affects of syphilis and no interventions will be done. Second, the doctors withheld information of the type of drugs the men were receiving. Last but not least, the doctors withheld information of penicillin from the…

Social Darwinism and the Eugenics Movement Social Darwinism is the belief of natural selection that applies to social organizations and to individuals in society. The ones who were better suited would be well developed while those that were poorly adapted would suffer, this was Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism was created in the late nineteenth century. It was a highly developed movement that was involved with the theory of evolution. However, the theory was mainly based from the work of…

This study lasted from 1932-1972 and I believe the reason these poor men participated in the study is because the men were offered free medical exams, free meals, and burial insurance (CDC, 2016). Since all of the participants were poor, having free things presented to them was enough to entice them to take part in the study. Many ethical issues were violated during the duration of the project. First off the men involved in the study were not aware of the true intentions of the experiment.…

world. No consent obtained is the consent of extra research without permission. The Tuskegee Experiment it was unethical to treat men who had a fatal disease with a fabricated solution. To study the effects of syphilis disease, another nine years, penicillin introduced the cure of syphilis. 31 years additional syphilis research. Men died, spouses, girlfriends infected. Children born infected. Generations of families have to deal with this dreadful disease. No consent obtained from the men…

Wild Oil of Oregano is an edible medicinal grade essential oil that is grown from a wild species of oregano especially in the Mediterranean. There are a multitude of conditions that Oil of Oregano treats, but the most famous use is its ability to kill infections in the body. Most organisms cannot survive when exposed to the powerful phenols (carvacrol and thymol) which are the active ingredient in this Wild Oil of Oregano. These ingredients work well on their own but have an added potency when…

readers could relate more with -- not just intellectual movements of the distant past, but rather discoveries and inventions that have directly impacted modern humanity. In this way, Hughes caters to his audience by promoting recent inventions such as penicillin and kidney dialysis in order to concretely…

In the Game of Thrones, specific medical knowledge is further advanced and accurate than in the Middle Ages. This stands partially for the reason that certain discoveries in history have been accidental, for example, penicillin, not the culmination of a long aggregation of previous discoveries. While this might seem incongruent with the otherwise static medieval level of technology in the Game of Thrones, much of real-life medical knowledge was discovered purely through trial and error or by…