Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
1926 |Penicillin Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic. It was successfully used to treat infection in 1930, and was mass-produced in the late 1940s. As factory animal farming became more prevalent, animals began receiving antibiotics toprevent virusessuch as rotavirus...
Fortunately, I did not let my failure with the hernia stop me from further attempts at self-healing because I knew that holistic healing is much more than getting rid of a physical or emotional symptom that’s anchored into place by themind body connection. Now I also see that the various...
Syphilis is now treated effectively with penicillin, but in the late 15th-early 16th centuries, it caused symptoms such as genital ulcers, rashes, tumors, severe pain and dementia, and was often fatal. According to one theory, the origins of syphilis in Europe can be traced to Columbus and ...
Like chocolate chip cookies and penicillin, Silly Putty was created by accident in 1943 during an engineer's attempt to create synthetic rubber for the war effort. It didn't fill the government's need, so it languished in obscurity until this year when toy store owner Ruth Fallgetter was ...
Penicillin and lysozyme primarily affect peptidoglycan synthesis in gram-positive bacterial cells. Why are these agents less effective against gram-negative bacterial cells?Based on what you know about the difference between Gram-positive and Gram-negative cell envelopes, would...
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Currently, most penicillin resistance in the United States is of the “intermediate” type (penicillin minimum inhibitory concentration, or MIC, of 0.1 to 1.0 mg/L) rather than the high-level type (penicillin MIC of 2.0 or more).50 Pneumococcal resistance to other antibiotics, including ...
Like chocolate chip cookies and penicillin, Silly Putty was created by accident in 1943 during an engineer's attempt to create synthetic rubber for the war effort. It didn't fill the government's need, so it languished in obscurity until this year when toy store owner Ruth Fallgetter was ...
manmade mercury compound -- ironically used to “treat” syphilis -- allowed syphilis to gain entrance to the brain. When penicillin was developed in the 1940s and actually killed syphilis infections, GPI disappeared because one of the two requirements for the illness – th...