4. The antibiotic penicillin Without discussing Penicillin, no overview of innovations that influenced human history would be complete. Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming found a mold in a Petri ...

The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered by the Scottish scientist Alexander Flemming in 1928The chemical structure of penicillin was worked out using X-ray ...

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Today we know more about the downsides of antibiotics, but penicillin still remains as a significant milestone in the history of medicines.