Penicillin: The Bacterial Cell Killer Before the discovery of penicillin, bacteria-caused diseases took a heavy toll on the world population. During the 1800's there were only limited ideas about how diseases were generated in the human body. Two men, Pasteur and Koch, had clearly shown ...

Sir Alexander Fleming was born in Lochfield, Scotland on August 6th, 1881. He attended St. Mary's Medical School in London. It was in St. Mary's, where Sir Alexander Fleming began his research. Early in his medical life, Fleming became interested in the natural bacterial action of the ...

Antibiotics are medicines that go and combat against disease causing bacteria microbes. These bacteria cause many things but some things they do not cause are colds, coughs, and flues. Antibiotics can do nothing to help colds, coughs, and flues because these are viral infections. There are many th...

In 1877, Robert koch grew an organism called anthrax. He tested, demonstrated, and produced anthrax by injecting it into animals. Anthrax is an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans by direct contact with infected animals or their products. The spore-forming bacteria called Bacillus Anthr...