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First World War

During the First World War, Fleming became a captain in the Royal
Alexander Fleming Army Medical Corps. He worked in field hospitals, treating many soldiers
who suffered from infected wounds.

(1881 - 1955) Antiseptics, such as hydrogen peroxide, were used to clean wounds.
Fleming noticed they actually made infections worse in deeper wounds
Alexander Fleming was a scientist from Scotland. because they killed the body’s white blood cells as well as bacteria.
He is famous for discovering penicillin, the first Fleming worked with another doctor, Almroth Wright, to prove that
antibiotic. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that saline (salt water) was the best solution for cleaning wounds as it did no
can destroy bacteria or stop their growth. damage to the body.

Early life Discoveries


Fleming made his greatest discovery by accident. He was examining a
Fleming was born in 1881 near Darvel, in Ayrshire.
bacteria called staphylococcus in a culture dish. Whilst he was away on
His parents were both farmers. His father had health a trip, a mould spore contaminated the culture. When Fleming checked
problems and died when Fleming was only seven. the dish, he noticed the mouldy area had no bacteria. He investigated
and discovered a substance in the mould that stopped bacterial growth.
He named it penicillin.
Education
Legacy
Fleming did well in school and finished two years
early at age 16. He went on to study medicine at In 1939, two other scientists, Ernst Chain and Howard Florey,
London St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School. managed to turn penicillin into a medicine for humans.

After completing his degree, he studied bacteria that In 1941, penicillin started being used to treat bacterial
can cause diseases in people. diseases. Fleming, Chain and Florey were awarded the Nobel
Prize for medicine in 1945.

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