Source: Good News Network
90 years ago today, Sir Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, a discovery that would become the world’s first antibiotic—penicillin. The Scottish physician and Professor of Bacteriology had served throughout World War I in the British Army Medical Corps and witnessed the death of many soldiers from infected wounds, and began searching for a solution.
One morning, after having left his laboratory a mess, he returned from vacation and found a mold had killed the staphylococci culture in the petrie dish and commented, “That’s funny.” (1928)Fleming published his discovery the following year, in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology,but little attention was paid to his article. But it changed the course of medicine, and won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology, and many other awards. The room where Fleming discovered and tested penicillin is preserved as the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum in St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.
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