Penicillin

            My topic for the top one hundred news stories of the century is Penicillin. I choose this subject because I felt I needed to prove that it is more than just an antibiotic or just a mold. In the following paragraphs I hope to make my point clear.
             Penicillin itself can be used to treat many and a wide variety of diseases. It can be used for treatment of respiratory infections to sexually transmitted diseases. We can use it on humans and animals too. The following are some disease that can be treated by Penicillin: treatment of staphylococci, osteomyelitis, supprative arthritis, bronchitis, empyema, endocarditis, furuncles, laryngotrachetis, mastitis, meningitis, otitis media, peritonitis, supprative pneumonia, burns, septicema, sinustis, tonsillitus, wounds, hemolytic streptococci, pneumococci, anaerobic streptococci, gonococci, meningococci, anaerobic clostridia, diphtheria bacilli, anthrax organisms, and the spirochetes of syphilis. So as you can see Penicillin can be used on many different diseases.
             Sir Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin. Sir Alexander Fleming lived from 1881 to 1955. Fleming was a British bacteriologist who in nineteen forty-five was the co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for medicine. He shared the prize with Doctor Howard Florey and Doctor Ernest Chain, who received the prize for their work in purifying Penicillin. Sir Alexander Fleming was born on a farm in Lochfield, Scotland on August sixth eighteen eighty-one. At age thirteen he went to live with his brother, who practiced medicine, in London, England. He then got a job in a shipping company. His uncle died and left him some money and he used the money to go to medical school. He had no university diploma so he took a special exam and attended the medical school of St. Mary's Hospital. In World War One he served as an army doctor in France. So many men died during the war because of infected wounds.