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Penicillin

  • 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.