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20th Century Drugs and Treatments (Drug development (After WWII, a huge…
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Penicillin
In 1828 Alexander Fleming accidentally found a petri dish in his lab with mould that had killed some of the bacterial culture around it,and he writes about the bacteria it can kill
In 1938, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain discover a method of purifying and producing penicillin
In 1940, Florey and Chain test out the Penicillin on Mice. However due to WWII, there is not enough money to produce the drugs
In 1941 the pair turned their Oxford Uni lab into a penicillin factory. Florey gains funding from the US who see its potential
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AIDS has no current cure, and has only been known about since 1981
IN 1967, Dr. Christian Barnard, a South African doctor, completed the first Heart Transplant
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In 1970, cyclosporine, a drug that stops your immune system rejecting transplants was created
In 1950, Wilfred G Bigelow completed the first open heart surgery
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In 1901, Karl Landsteiner discovered blood groups
X-rays were discovered by William Roentgen in 1895, and were used widespread throughout the world from 1930