Story Of Penicillin Medicine

Story of Penicillin Medicine

Penicillin is a life saving medicine called Tablet of Anti-biotic. Who was create it?

It is a Long Story…

It was discovered by Dr. Alexander Fleming.

Fleming was born in a poor family of England in 1881. He was seventh of the eight brother and sister. He passed his childhood with his parents. Fleming was a very regular and attentive student. Up to the age of twelve years, he was never absent from school.

At the age of fourteen, he was sent to London. Here he studied for two years in a secondary school. Then he took to the job of a page in an office for want of money.

When he was twenty, he got a share of his father’s property. This brought about a great change in his life. He got himself admitted to St. Mary Medical School and studied here for five years with Honors in Physiology, Pharmacology, Medicine, Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Hygiene. He was awarded a gold medal for Clinical Medicine in 1906 and 1908, when he got the M.B.B.S degree of the London University.

 At the age of twenty eight, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1909. Thus, by dint of his genius and self confidence he became well established in life. The World War (I) began in 1914. Dr. Flaming heard the call of the wounded people and he could not but respond to it. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and went to France. Here he began the treatment of the wonder soldiers. The wounds often got septic and life was danger. So his only thought was find out an antidote to it. He went on with his research work not only for a year or two. He went on with the work for long twenty two years and at last, he came by it. It killed the micro-organism, that decomposed the wounds but it was not harmful human body. He named it Penicillin called Anti-biotic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his discovery of Penicillin and he died on 1955.