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Penicillin in sentence

52 examples of Penicillin in a sentence

So if we put you in the category of you've got syphilis, we can give you penicillin.
So we've made a silk card with penicillin in it.
And we stored penicillin at 60 degrees C, so 140 degrees Fahrenheit, for two months without loss of efficacy of the penicillin.
And not only did they do it, but within two years, they scaled up penicillin from preparation in one-liter flasks to 10,000-gallon vats.
That was how quickly penicillin was produced and became one of the greatest medical advances of all time.
And I gave him a prescription for penicillin and sent him on his way.
Some bacteria figured out how to stay away from penicillin, and it went around sort of creating its little DNA information with other bacteria, and now we have a lot of bacteria that are resistant to penicillin, because bacteria communicate.
It all sort of started as a benign mistake, like penicillin.
I think actually it might be able to save more lives than penicillin.
The first half of the 20th century produced the assembly line and the airplane, penicillin and a vaccine for tuberculosis.
Howard Florey had managed to synthesize a very small amount of penicillin, a drug that had been discovered 12 years before by Alexander Fleming but had never actually been used to treat a human, and indeed no one even knew if the drug would work, if it was full of impurities that would kill the patient, but Florey and his team figured if they had to use it, they might as well use it on someone who was going to die anyway.
They were starting to run out of penicillin, so what they would do was run with his urine across the road to re-synthesize the penicillin from his urine and give it back to him, and that worked.
Day five, they ran out of penicillin, and the poor man died.
So that story didn't end that well, but fortunately for millions of other people, like this child who was treated again in the early 1940s, who was again dying of a sepsis, and within just six days, you can see, recovered thanks to this wonder drug, penicillin.
If you look at the price of penicillin, the cost per day is about 10 cents.
The first test of penicillin, the first antibiotic, was three years in the future.
Here is what happened next: Penicillin was distributed in 1943, and widespread penicillin resistance arrived by 1945.
After all, the first person to receive penicillin, a British policeman named Albert Alexander, who was so ravaged by infection that his scalp oozed pus and doctors had to take out an eye, was infected by doing something very simple.
In fact, it was predicted by Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered penicillin.
He was given the Nobel Prize in 1945 in recognition, and in an interview shortly after, this is what he said: "The thoughtless person playing with penicillin treatment is morally responsible for the death of a man who succumbs to infection with a pencillin-resistant organism."
You have a pneumonia, you take penicillin, you kill the microbe and you cure the disease.
When scientist Alexander Fleming mistakenly contaminated a Petri dish in the lab, it led to the discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin.
And what Peter noticed was, the participants in this study were not given the penicillin to treat their syphilis.
Once we define the problem, we can prevent that death with something as cheap and safe as penicillin.
He won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work contributing to the development of the first antibiotic, penicillin.
In fact, it's so remarkable that provocative statements like this one: "Cancer is having a penicillin moment," people are saying, with these new immune therapy drugs.
In the intro, he says ... AM: "Poetry for the people is a sick pen's penicillin.
The reality is that if we continue this way, we are a few decades away from being completely helpless in front of infections, just like we were before the discovery of penicillin 90 years ago.
And it was only through the industrialized fermentation of penicillin that millions could survive infectious diseases.
The penicillium mold constantly produces penicillin in order to defend itself from threats, such as nearby bacterial colonies that might consume its resources.
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