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However, due to the instability of penicillin and the war-time restrictions placed on Howard Florey's Laboratory, only a small quantity of penicillin had been extracted and, although Florey and colleagues extracted any remaining penicillin from Alexander's urine, by the fifth day they had run out. [2]
Sample of penicillin mould presented by Alexander Fleming to Douglas Macleod in 1935. The discovery of penicillin was one of the most important scientific discoveries in the history of medicine. Ancient societies used moulds to treat infections and in the following centuries many people observed the inhibition of bacterial growth by moulds.
Mattiedna Johnson (7 April 1918 - December 2003) was an African American nurse and laboratory technician. [1] In the 1940s, she played a pertinent role in the cure for the fatal scarlet fever epidemic and other diseases that soldiers in World War II were getting. [1]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An investigation released on Wednesday into U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's secret 2024 hospitalization found his desire for privacy drove notification failures inside ...
Billie Grimes-Watson was a medic in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. As the initial U.S. invasion turned into bloody chaos, she would sprint through through the smoke and fire of blasts from improvised explosive devices and gunfire to save lives, struggling with the maimed and broken bodies of soldiers she knew and loved.
The drug's success in saving soldiers in World War II who had been dying from infected wounds resulted in Fleming, Florey and Chain jointly winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945. [20] Griseofulvin is an antifungal drug and a potential chemotherapeutic agent [21] that was discovered in P. griseofulvum. [22]
The significance of Memorial Day extends beyond barbecues and parades; it is a day to reflect on the sacrifices made by those brave souls who fought and died to protect the freedoms we enjoy today.
Our soldiers were ordered to save their lives,” the statement read. The brigade later learned its soldiers were killed from the video released by Russian forces. “War is cruel and we are ...