He was able to isolate the mould and identified it as a member of the penicillium genus. He found it to be effective against all Gram-positive pathogens, which are responsible for: Pneumonia, Gonorrhea, Meningitis, and Scarlet Fever. Later, he would say: “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.” The introduction of his antibiotic marked the beginning of the so called, “golden era”. According to pos.org, Fourteen years after the invention of the first penicillin, in March 1942, Anne Miller became the first civilian patient to be successfully treated with penicillin. She was one of many patients that evidently needed the antibiotic for life threatening purposes after miscarrying and developing an infection that led to blood poisoning. Penicillin not only treated woman with life threatening conditions but also men after WWI military duties. Penicillin was the miracle medicine to many Americans for over two decades. People began to use and over use it and became immune. Later through time many other antibacterial drugs started to come to the market and it only made a drastic shift in the pharmaceutical world. Now people became more and more
He was able to isolate the mould and identified it as a member of the penicillium genus. He found it to be effective against all Gram-positive pathogens, which are responsible for: Pneumonia, Gonorrhea, Meningitis, and Scarlet Fever. Later, he would say: “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.” The introduction of his antibiotic marked the beginning of the so called, “golden era”. According to pos.org, Fourteen years after the invention of the first penicillin, in March 1942, Anne Miller became the first civilian patient to be successfully treated with penicillin. She was one of many patients that evidently needed the antibiotic for life threatening purposes after miscarrying and developing an infection that led to blood poisoning. Penicillin not only treated woman with life threatening conditions but also men after WWI military duties. Penicillin was the miracle medicine to many Americans for over two decades. People began to use and over use it and became immune. Later through time many other antibacterial drugs started to come to the market and it only made a drastic shift in the pharmaceutical world. Now people became more and more