1900+ Flashcards
First key development of penicillin
First antibiotic known as medical drugs, first time infections can be dealt with quickly and effectively
Streptococci
Bacteria that cause infections, for example, sepsis, tonsillitis, pneumonia
Staphylococcus
Bacteria that cause skin infections, for example, cellulitis, infected boils
1928 Fleming’s discovery of penicillin
Chemical antiseptics were used for didn’t heal infections from streptococcal and staphylococci bacteria. He left a pile of petri dishes containing bacteria around certain mould and after a while the bacteria had disappeared. He then experiment in the living cells. However, it didn’t work on deep infections and took a long time to create enough penicillin to use.
1938 Florey and chain is research and trials
Research on how James could be killed. They read Fleming’s penicillin how effective. They wanted funds from the government and finally got enough from America for five years research, however, they needed 3000 times more penicillin. Large companies couldn’t afford to fund this quality of work.
- Wartime increased the neither penicillin, the English factories couldn’t mass-produce it.
America with Pearl Harbor attack, realised the potential of penicillin and made interest free loans to use US companies to buy specialist expensive equipment needed for example on D-Day in 1944, 2.3 million doses were used.
Post war of Fleming, Florey and chain
Penicillin began to be manufactured and used by everyone. Not just Armed Forces. It took time but antibiotics became more and more common in 1950s and 60s. It gradually transformed the wonderdrug into an ordinary every day. Life saver after 1948 it became free from NHS
What was the great sanitary awakening?
Identification of filth as both a cause of disease to vehicle of transformation and insuring embrace of cleanliness central component
Lifestyle factors
Poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking, drinking alcohol and stress
Florey and chain Fleming
Florey and chain injected, 8 miles to the lethal suspension of bacteria. Four were also given penicillin before recipients survived while the rest died. Providing definitive proof that penicillin worked against serious bacterial infection.1940s they systematically produce a pure form of penicillin at the beginning of the 1940s, and in investigating its properties in more detail, so it could be produced in large quantities
When did the NHS coming to beginning?
National health service came into being on fifth of July 1948 and provided free medical treatment for all British citizens, nationalisation of hospitals under Ministry of health and organised into regional health authorities creation of health centre to provide services like vaccinations, maternity care, District Nurses, et cetera and a better distribution of doctors around the country of GPs opticians and dentists everywhere
