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The History of Antibiotics

  • John Parkington

    John Parkington
    Read More Here in his book on pharmacology, John Parkington recommended using mold as a treatment.
  • Sir John Scott Burden Sanderson

    Sir John Scott Burden Sanderson
    Sanderson observed that culture fluid covered with mold did not produce bacteria
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    Lister experimented with the antibacterial action on human tissue on what he called Penicillium glaucium
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Pasteur postulated that bacteria could kill other bacteria (anthrax bacilli)
  • Frances Ernest Duschesney

    Frances Ernest Duschesney
    Duchesne healed infected guinea pigs from typhoid using muld (Penicillium glaucium)
  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming
    Read more here While cleaning up his laboratory, Fleming discovered an area of a culture slide that was clear of bacteria.
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk
    Domagk discovered Sulfonamidochrysoidine (Prontosil )
  • Howard Fleury and Ernst Chain

    Howard Fleury and Ernst Chain
    Fleury and Chain were able to isolate what created the absence of bacteria, it was Penicillin
  • Charles Fletcher

    Charles Fletcher
    Dr. Fletcher used some of Chain’s and Florey’s penicillin on a patient with an infection and the wound made a spectacular recovery.