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Who do you think deserves the credit for the development of Penicillin?
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Who do you think deserves the credit for the development of Penicillin? I think each of the individuals who contributed to the development of Penicillin deserves some credit. Fleming, who started off the whole process of the establishment of penicillin, worked in a military hospital in the first world war. He found that the antiseptic that was in use at the time did not prevent infection in deep wounds. After the war he went on to find a substance that could kill germs effectively. He discovered that a natural substance in tears, called lysozyme, would kill some germs , but not those that caused disease and infection. He later carried out research into the germs that turned wounds septic. This meant growing the germs on agar in culture dishes. When he came round to cleaning a discarded culture dish, he noticed mould spore had lodged itself on one of them. He later...
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