The story of penicillin - the first antibiotic used successfully ... with bacteria when a tear fell from his eye into a culture plate. He later noticed that a substance in his tear (which he ...

Fleming presented his findings in 1929, but they raised little interest. He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Fleming worked ...

Penicillin established as a major force against ... he left a number of bacteria growing in plates in his laboratory, when he came back from holiday he realised that a reproductive spore from ...