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Prior to 1941 it was very common for people to die from very simple cases of infection. Step on a nail or simply cut your face shaving; any injury could lead to an infection that could kill you. In 1928, Alexander Flemming was investigating the properties of a group of bacteria know as staphylococci and became another in a long line of scientists to benefit from a seemingly chance observation. His problem during this research was the frequent contamination of culture plates with airborne molds. However, he was known as a sloppy scientist. Cultures that he worked on were constantly forgotten in his lab, which was normally in a state of great disorder. After returning from a month long vacation, Flemming observed that many of his culture plates were contaminated with a fungus. He immediately threw the plates in a tray of lysol. Fortunately, a former member of his lab was visiting and he took the contaminated cultures that had not been submerged in the lysol to show his visitor what he had been doing. It was only then that he notice the unusual inhibition zones around the fungus. He realized at this point that this may be something important and for the rest of that day showed all of his colleagues the culture and continued to study the ani-bacterial properties of the mold. Subsequently, Flemming isolated an extract from the mold and he named it penicillin. Although his discovery was published, there was not a great deal of attention paid to Flemming’s paper. Part of the problem is that Flemming didn’t understand the significance of what he had discovered and he wasn’t a very enthusiastic person. Eventually, because of World War 2 his discovery was brought to the light and saved thousands upon thousands of lives. We have the greatest good news ever told. We have to tell the world. Millions of lives are in the balance.
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Pastor Randy