treatments

• Alexander Fleming


  • noticed that anti biotics could not prevent infections, especially in deep wounds.
  • also noticed that a mould (penicillin) had grown in a petri dish and had killed the staphylococci bacteria in 1928.
  • therefore named penicillin an antibiotic - killer of life.
  • published his results in 1929, but didn't have enough funds to develop the drug
• alexander fleming


  • created the first antibiotic, while antiseptics could prevent infections in some wounds, antibiotics could kill all infections in any wounds, saving more people.
• florey and chain - penicillin


  1937 - they experimented and produced some of the drug (that fleming didn't have enough funds to develop).

  1940 - tested on a human but he died once their stock ran out -->proves how effective the drug us if the patient is surviving on the drug.