Jeffrey K Aronson , 2025-05-09 17:01:00
The discovery and extraction of penicillinHaving just celebrated the 80th anniversary of VE Day on 8 May 1945, it is appropriate that we should remember medical contributions to the efforts that led to victory. A topic of particular interest involves the use of penicillin.The story of Alexander Fleming’s discovery of the antibacterial action of a culture of Penicillium organisms in 1929 is well known. It is perhaps less well known that Fleming invented the word “penicillin.” He first used it in an article in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology in 1929, titled “On the antibacterial action of cultures of a Penicillium, with special reference to their use in the isolation of B. influenzæ”1:“In the rest of this article allusion will constantly be made to experiments with filtrates of a broth culture of this mould, so for convenience and to avoid the repetition of the rather cumbersome phrase ‘Mould broth…
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When I use a word . . . Penicillin during the second world war
