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Discovery
The discovery of penicillin is atrributed to Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming. -
Treatment
In 1930, Cecil George Paine attempted to use penicillin to treat sycosis barbae and eruptions in beard follicles, but was unsuccessful. -
Cure
Alexander Fleming achieved the first recorded cure with penicillin. -
Progress
Howard Florey and a team of researches made a significant progress in showing the vivo bactericidal action of penicillin. -
Success
John Bumstead and Orvan Hess saved a patient's life using Penicillin. -
US made pencillin
The first patient was treated for streptococcal septicemia with U.S. made Penicillin produced by Merck & Co. -
Structure
The chemical structure of Penicillin was determined by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.