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Ernest Duchesne, a French medical student, discovered the certain moulds could kill bacteria. His research went unnoticed.
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In a careless and messy laboratory, Alexander Fleming discovered that the mold Penicillin notatum could destroy bacteria
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Fleming published results of his investigations
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Howard Florey and collegues at Oxford University did intensive research and were able to demonstrate penicillin's ability to kill infectious bacteria
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Penicillin was PRICELESS
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Use of penicillin began because of Howard Florey and Ernst Chain developed powder form of medication
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Florey and Norman Heatly came to the Us to start producing penicillin for clinical trials.
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Heatly and Andrew J Moyer increased the yields of penicillin 10 times
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trials performed, penicillin proved most effective agent to date.
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$20 per dose
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$.55
