20TH CENTURY MEDICINE

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Medicine Through Time 20th Century
- Discovery Of Penicillin
  - 1928
  - Alexander Fleming
  - BY CHANCE!
  - Colonies of bacteria killed by fungus
  - Development of Penicillin
    - 1930s, Florey and Chain. 2 Oxford Students
    - Asked for Gov. funding.
      - Too busy with the war.
        US helped with mass production - Urgency with casualties of WW2.
        1944 - significant mass production for military medics. Fleming, Florey and Chain awarded Nobel Prizes.
  - Factors Leading to Development
    - Government
      - Mass production and research
    - Technology
      - Microscopes etc...
    - Scientific Experiment
    - Individuals
      - FLOREY AND CHAIN!
    - War
      - Casualties in WW2 added to urgency
    - Chance!
- Discovery of DNA
- The NHS
  - Introduction of NHS
  - Influence of WW2
- Louis Pasteur's Germ Theory
  - Published in1861
- THE MAGIC BULLET
  - A method used to target specific microbes and not harm healthy cells
  - Emil von Behring developed Koch's work - isolating antitoxins to fight diptheria.
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THE MAGIC BULLET
- A method used to target specific microbes and not harm healthy cells
- Emil von Behring developed Koch's work - isolating antitoxins to fight diptheria.
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