Chapter 1174: The Birth Process of Penicillin

Hearing Lu Yuan's words, Mao Ying, Xu Yunwang, Ma Pole, Niu Pimple and others were so excited that they couldn't help themselves, because they felt that Chen Ergouzi and other seriously injured people would be saved!

But Dr. Wang, Fujita Ichiro and the others couldn't stop smiling and shaking their heads, they didn't believe that Lu Yuan didn't have this ability, but they ...... They really couldn't believe Lu Yuan.

This, no matter how you look at it, is like a child's play.

However, Lu Yuan has already taken immediate action.

Because only he knows that he is not playing child's play, he is serious!

"Su Yan, Mr. Zou, you will receive them first, understand their specialties, and then assign them to the post, be sure to do their best!"

First of all, he explained the affairs of Zou Leping and others to Su Yan to do it, and then Lu Yuan instructed Niu Pimple to go to the surrounding people's homes to collect orange peels, the more the better, it is best to be the kind of bad preservation The surface has grown green mold, you must be careful not to destroy the mold, and bring it all back.

At the same time, the preparation of Xu Yun's laboratory should also be accelerated, and Dr. Wang should be asked to supervise the site, and all improvements can be made according to Dr. Wang's requirements.

Everyone was busy, only Fujita Ichiro, Chairman Li and others looked at Lu Yuan's excited back and sighed secretly, saying in their hearts that the head of the regiment this time, I am afraid that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Medicine, not ordinary people can play it, and they don't believe that Lu Yuan can play it.

But they didn't know that what Lu Yuan did was what would be used in common decades later!

Penicillin is an antibiotic that is effective in controlling complications caused by infection and wound inflammation.

In fact, at this time, penicillin was already available, but it was not used in clinical use at all.

Speaking of penicillin, it is actually related to an extremely famous political figure, that is, Winston Churchill, who will become British minister in a year!

It all started at the end of the 19th century.

It is said that there is a poor farmer in Scotland, although his family is poor, he is very kind and helpful.

One day he was working in the fields, and suddenly he heard someone crying for help in a nearby mud swamp, it turned out to be a little boy who had accidentally fallen into the mud, and seeing that the mud was almost submerged in his chest, Fleming jumped into the mud without hesitation and struggled to save the boy.

At this moment, a nobleman arrived in a carriage and was anxiously looking for his lost son, whom the farmer had saved.

Seeing his son, who was covered in mud but unharmed, the nobleman was very excited and offered to reward the life-saver with a large amount of money.

And this peasant, of course, chose to refuse politely, and the wind was bright.

While they were pushing each other, the peasant's son came running to his father, and the nobleman said, "Since you have saved my son's life, and you refuse to accept my great reward, let me sponsor your son to go to school and receive a formal education...... I'm sure he'll be very successful in the future! ”

The peasants agreed.

As a result, two extremely important figures in history appear in this story.

The first was Winston Churchill, the playful little boy who almost drowned.

The other one, Professor Alexander Fleming, was the one who discovered penicillin and applied it to clinical medicine, saving countless people who died from wound inflammation.

In fact, the emergence of penicillin, like many drugs, has certain accidental factors.

It was in the afternoon of September 1928, and Professor Fleming came to the laboratory as usual to grow some staphylococci bacteria.

Staphylococci are a common bacterium that causes infectious skin diseases and abscesses, similar to the bacteria that cause wounditis.

On the afternoon of September 1928, Fleming came to the laboratory as usual to cultivate some staphylococci bacteria. This is a common bacterium that causes infectious skin diseases and abscesses.

By chance, the golden staphylococci that originally grew in his petri dish turned into a cyan mold.

Therefore, Fleming thought to himself that it must be staphylococcus contaminated.

But strangely, wherever the culture comes into contact with the cyan mold, the yellow staphylococcus is becoming translucent, and finally completely lysed, revealing a clean circle in the petri dish.

There is no doubt that the cyanococcus destroys the staphylococci it comes into contact with.

It is remarkable that this unknown Penicillium has such a strong inhibitory and lytic effect on staphylococcus, which is an extremely important human pathogenic bacterium.

The quality of scientific research prompted Fleming to immediately realize that something great might be possible. He wanted to know what this mysterious mold with such potency was.

He quickly scraped a little mold out of the petri dish and carefully placed it under the microscope. Through the thick lenses, he finally realized that the type of bacteria that could cause staphylococci to gradually dissolve and die was Penicillium.

He then placed the remaining mold in a jar filled with culture medium and continued to observe. After a few days, the penicillium insolent grew into a colony, and the culture soup was pale yellow.

He was surprised to find that not only did this penicillium have a strong bactericidal effect, but even the yellow culture soup had a good bactericidal ability, so he deduced that the real bactericidal substance must be a metabolite of the growth process of Penicillium, which he called penicillin.

In 1929, Fleming presented his paper on penicillin, but it did not attract the necessary attention, otherwise in 1929 penicillin, a powerful antibiotic, would have been introduced.

Time came in a blink of an eye in 1941, the Second World War broke out, countless wounded died because of wound infection without strong antibacterial drugs, the German chemist Qian finally noticed Fleming's paper on penicillin more than ten years ago, and invested heavily in research to start research, and achieved certain results.

Finally, in the hands of Australian pathologist ****** Flory, a key breakthrough was obtained!

The research of penicillin is not all smooth sailing, mainly because the production of penicillin is too low, only thirty or forty units can be obtained per cubic centimeter, and if you want to mass production, this is far from enough!

One day, Flory was walking down the street outside the laboratory gate after work, and when he saw a roadside fruit shop full of watermelons, he wanted to buy a few watermelons and go back to reward his colleagues who were working hard in the laboratory.

The watermelons in this store all looked very good, Flory bent down, stretched out his index finger and tapped this one, knocked on that one, then picked up a few casually, and was about to leave after paying the money, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a crushed watermelon on the counter.

Although this watermelon is larger than the others, the skin has festered in several places, and a layer of green mold has grown on it.

Florey stared at the rotten melon for a long time, and now that the green mold was very similar to penicillin, so he took the watermelon back.

(End of chapter)

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