Penicillin

Any people that got dirt in a scratch would probably die from a disease and in wars like World War 1 soldiers would most often survive their wounds but since wound would get infected they would die. And since there was no good medicine to kill the disease before it killed you, they always died. There were some medicines that the Bayer company made, but the diseases were able to build up an immunity to them pretty quickly. As a doctor in World War 1 Alexander Fleming saw, first hand, how many soldiers overcame the wound, but fell to the disease. Before he served as a medic in WW1 Fleming studied under an important vaccine professor named Almroth Wright. After the war Alexander experimented with different snot samples and diseases but didn’t find any good cures for the diseases. One day in August he decided to go on a vacation, so he put his petri dishes that held diseases in a corner until he came back. When he got back he found his petri dishes had been infected with mold, and that the disease near the mold had been killed. With more study, he realized it was the juice produced by the mold that killed the disease. There was a problem with the mold though. The mold didn’t grow fast enough to effectively be used to kill diseases. It would take another ten years and another doctor to find a way to use it. His name was Dr. Howard Florey and he discovered a new version of the mold that prodused 200 times as much juice. He named it penicillin.