Alexander Fleming, salahsatu penemu terbesar abad 20
Penicillin is a miracle.
Throughout its history, millions of humans die from diseases caused by bacterial infection. First, when the body is infected by bacteria, then almost nothing can be done but wait death. Bacteria, is one of our weblink greatest enemy of mankind.
Then Penicillin discovered. Penisilinlah ultimately save humanity from a variety of bacterial infections. Penicillin, discovered in 1928, was a miracle drug.
Thanks to Penicillin, Alexander Fleming regarded as one of the most important man in history, and he received the highest award the Nobel Prize in 1945 with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. Fleming also was included in TIME 100, 100 20th century the greatest human beings.
Fleming Laboratories are often messy and dirty. By 1928 he was researching how to turn off harmful bacteria, including those that have killed millions of soldiers wounded in World War I.
One day, being too eager to holidays, he forgot to clean his petri dish (plate experiment), which contains a bacteria called staphylococcus. Cup was located several days in the open air.
When he returned, he saw a miracle. He found, in several places in the cup was contaminated with bacteria (grown) of substance such as fungi, and it turns out, bacteria, fungi around it was dead! Bacteria are not affected by the mushroom, not dead. In conclusion, a special fungus that has managed to kill the dangerous bacteria. Mushroom, it is from the genus Penicillium notatum. Eureka! This is the key!
Fleming struggled to separate and purify Penicillium, he did a lot of research and made many records. But for years he did not succeed. He had surrendered.
In 1935, two British medical researcher at Oxford, Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain, Fleming discovered writings. They study it seriously and began to develop it further.
In 1940, they tried it in mice, and only in a few hours, the drug was working! Finally in 1941, they began to try them on humans. The experiment was successful, and the man begins a new era of medicine. Humans have the most powerful weapons to kill harmful organisms called bacteria.
Penicillin used to treat syphilis, bronchitis, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, and many others. Penicillin became very influential when it is used to cure hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers wounded in World War II. Without Penicilin, hundreds of thousands of allied troops would die in vain. And perhaps, without penicilin, the Allies would be defeated by Nazi Germany, and the world is now controlled by fascism.
That's the greatness of antibiotic drugs called Penicilin. Penicillin had changed the world.
by : www.imperiumindonesia.blogspot.com
Fleming WOW! Changing the World and Save Millions of People!
Senin, 12 April 2010
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