Penicillin pioneered more discoveries in medicine.
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The discovery of penicillin transformed the process of drug discovery. Penicillin revolutionized the medical industry. According to the article, "Discovery of Penicillin" it states, "At the beginning of the 20th century, Paul Ehrlich pioneered the search for a chemical that would kill a microorganism and leave the host unaltered—the 'magic bullet.'" This search was started and Alexander Fleming discovered a fungus that could surpass those requirements.
From the same article, "Discovery of Penicillin", "Its detection completely changed the process of drug discovery, its large-scale production transformed the pharmaceutical industry, and its clinical use changed forever the therapy for infectious diseases." Once Penicillin was made available to civilians, other antibiotics and drugs were discovered. After seeing what it took to discover and produce penicillin, other scientists wanted to discover their own antibiotics.
Penicillin was the first anti-biotic to be discovered and it encouraged the research to discover other anti-biotics. This lead to a chain of successes in the medical industry that saved lives and learned much more about fighting diseases.
If Penicillin had not been discovered, imagine what life would be like today? Who knows whether there would be any antibiotics? People might still be dying from treatable infectious diseases. The discovery of Penicillin truly broke a barrier in history by pioneering more discoveries in medicine. Before the discovery of medicines, medical treatment was less scientific than what medical treatment is like today. Penicillin completely changed the course of medicine discovery. It encouraged people to discover even more antibiotics and benefit the human race even more. Look at the world today and see what penicillin has left behind. It has left many other antibiotics and drugs, longer lifespans, and it cures bacterial infections such as pneumonia.
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