Unit 2 - Innovation

Penicillin

Penicillin was created by British scientist Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928.Penicillin is used in the treatment of bacterial infections.Penicillin saved many lives in the early years of the 20th Century most notably during the World Wars.

Penicillin gave the world a lot of relief of other worries beside their health during the troubling times of WWI and II.Penicillin helped medical science progress and led the way for many vaccines.It also saved many peoples lives from minor things such as an infected wound.

If penicillin hadn't been invented medical science wouldn't have evolved and a lot of illnesses would still be untreatable.Many live would have been lost and people would have a lot shorter life spans.The World is a tiny bit easier to live in because of Penicillin's contribution to medical science.