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None other than the big boy himself Fleming
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WHO WAS HE?
- Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire on 6 August 1881, the son of a farmer
- Was a chemist working at st Mary's hospital
- Something funny
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In 1928, while studying influenza, Fleming noticed that mould had developed accidentally on a set of culture dishes being used to grow the staphylococci germ. The mould had created a bacteria-free circle around itself. Fleming experimented further and named the active substance penicillin
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People used mouldy bread to save lives back in Middle Ages, links with penicillin.
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The USA decided to fund penicillin when they entered ww2 so that as many people as possible were saved.
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Marmite and mouldy cantaloupe melons produced the most penicillin mould.
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When penicillin was mass produced it saved thousands of lives
It was a foundation for more drugs to be manufactured.
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Infection was more likely to kill someone than actual injuries so penicillin absolutely smashed that to bits.
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