Penicillin

The Second World War, or World War II, was a global conflict that was fought by all of the world’s great powers. The war came twenty years after the First World War and lasted for six years. When the war was officially over in 1945, the total death tally had reached more than sixty million people. World War II was the deadliest war in history. The war was mostly fought and divided into two military alliances: the Axis and Allied powers. The countries that made up the Axis powers were Germany,…

Florey’s cat died [20]. Under certain circumstances, penicillin kills guinea pigs and Syrian hamsters [21, 22]. In addition, penicillin is teratogenic in rats, causing limb malformations in offspring. This is one of the problems with using animals to predict human response. (Greek) The tests can be unreliable. Millions of dollars are wasted every…

From horse drawn carriages to automobile to tanks and armored cars. The story of American history can be seen through the technological advancements and changes made from 1870’s through 1970’s. There are been hundred of thousands of new technological changes throughout history. Not every advancement changed or made history, but many did. These technological changes influenced every aspect of daily life in America. Technological changes revolutionized the way of life for Americans because it…

Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Leader of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazi Party. Since the defeat of Germany in World War II. Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the results of Nazism have been regarded in most of the world as synonymous with evil. Historic and cultural portrayals of Hitler in the West is almost uniformly negative, sometimes neglecting to mention the adulation the German people…

Mononucleosis also known as mono is commonly called the kissing disease. Mono is a virus caused by the Epstein-Barr virus. Which affects the lymphocytes and white blood cells that help support a person’s immunity. Mono can be easily be spread through a cough or sneeze. Along with by sharing a glass or food utensils with someone who is infected at the time. Mononucleosis has many signs and symptoms that come with the virus. These would include fatigue, malaise, a sore throat and fever. Along…

Miss Evers’ Boys is a movie that exposes the ethical issues of the Tuskegee study over a forty-year period. The U.S. Public Health Service’s experiment took place in rural Alabama between the years 1932 to 1972. It was conducted among African American males left untreated with syphilis. The goal was to determine if untreated syphilis reacted the same way in black males as it did in white males. Originally, the men believe they are being treated for the disease. The government eventually…

in ethics as being fair or impartial. There was no justice in what they did in the movie. In Miss Evers' Boys the health care providers and the broken system allowed a situation that was unethical to continue for over 40 years. For example, when Penicillin was discovered and widely available as the main treatment for syphilis, they denied the…

HT-29 cells were seeded at 2.0 × 104 cells/ml in a 96 well-plate for 24 hours in RPMI1640 medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum and 1% penicillin-streptomycin for 24 hours, thereafter the cells culture were incubated with pectin concentration range in RPMI 1640 medium containing 1% FBS for 24 hours. Medium surrounding cells was removed from each well into a pre-labeled 1ml Eppendorf tube…

Antibiotic Resistance Introduction: One of the challenges affecting the medical world is antibiotic resistance. This is a concern because antibiotics have been used for decades to treat hundreds of diseases. I was able to find two articles that go over this issue. The first one was found on http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/about.html and the second on http:/x/www.medicinenet.com/antibiotic_resistance/article.htm. These articles are informative. They help answer some of the important questions…

The different ways of preventing this disease is by using antibiotics, mostly penicillin, for up to 10 days, orally or through injection. If strep throat is seen in children then daily antibiotics are necessary until the child reaches the age of either 25 or 30. These daily antibiotics keep the strep throat from coming back. Even…