of 2 In the 1900s there was a medicine that became widely used which was called penicillin. Penicillin was created by accident in Alexander Fleming’s lab. How did penicillin become a widely used medicine? Penicillin became a widely used medicine because, it was one of the earliest discovered widely used antibiotic agents, it wasn’t created by a complete accident, and it saved a lot of lives during World War 2. To begin with, one reason that penicillin became a widely used medicine, was because it was one of the earliest discovered for antibiotics agents. What penicillin does is that it kills a number of disease-causing bacteria. Later after penicillin was discovered british scientists couldn’t produce the materials for penicillin which was needed for clinical trials on us and then they turned to the U.S…show more content… Later after penicillin was used by the world it was running out until they found a strain of penicillin from a moldy cantaloupe in a Peoria market and improved it to make the largest amount of penicillin. By November 26, 1941 the number of penicillin increased by 10 times the amount it was and According to source 2, “it was shown to be the most effective antibacterial agent to date.” As penicillin increased the prices dropped from $20 dollars per dose in July 1943 to $0.55 per dose in 1946. In addition, unlike many people think, penicillin wasn’t made by a complete accident it was made by a series of events that led to the discovery of penicillin but some of them weren’t natural. Fleming’s lab wasn’t really clean and neat. Downstairs he has a mycology lab which is a lab that has
