Flemings penicillin mould, 1935.

UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 07: This sample marks penicillin's transition from an interesting phenomenon to a potential drug. In 1928 Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) discovered that a strain of Penicillium mould exuded a substance that killed certain bacteria. Following the German firm IG Farben's announcement of the first general purpose bacteria-killing drug Prontosil, Fleming now saw his �penicillin�, as he called it, as a possible medicine and gave this sample of a producing mould to a colleague at St Mary's Hospital in London. Penicillin was eventually isolated in 1940, and from 1942 became an important drug. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)
UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 07: This sample marks penicillin's transition from an interesting phenomenon to a potential drug. In 1928 Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) discovered that a strain of Penicillium mould exuded a substance that killed certain bacteria. Following the German firm IG Farben's announcement of the first general purpose bacteria-killing drug Prontosil, Fleming now saw his �penicillin�, as he called it, as a possible medicine and gave this sample of a producing mould to a colleague at St Mary's Hospital in London. Penicillin was eventually isolated in 1940, and from 1942 became an important drug. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)
Flemings penicillin mould, 1935.
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07 August, 2001
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