{"id":9666,"date":"2021-11-29T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=9666"},"modified":"2021-11-29T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:36:28","slug":"an-accidental-discovery-that-changed-medicine-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=9666","title":{"rendered":"An accidental discovery that changed medicine forever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just under 100 years ago in September 1928, Alexander Fleming stumbled on the most life-changing discovery in recent medical history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As he himself said of that day in September: “One sometimes finds, what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together with medical colleagues Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and the world should be grateful to these great scientists for evermore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difficulty, after the momentous discovery of penicillin and its antibiotic properties, was how to market this wonder drug on a mass scale. The three men, with countless other collaborators, developed a production capability which meant that it could become available to people in need all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a good example of what Louis Pasteur said about his own experience regarding germ theory and rabies, “fortune favours the prepared mind”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out about his life, his discovery and the work that was done to bring this medical breakthrough to people around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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