Penicillin
My topic for the top one hundred news stories of the century is Penicillin. I choose this subject because I felt I needed to prove that it is more than just an antibiotic or just a mold. In the following paragraphs I hope to make my point clear. Penicillin itself can be used to treat many and a wide variety of diseases. It can be used for treatment of respiratory infections to sexually transmitted diseases. We can use it on humans and animals too. The following are some disease that can be treated by Penicillin: treatment of staphylococci, osteomyelitis, supprative arthritis, bronchitis, empyema, endocarditis, furuncles, laryngotrachetis, mastitis, meningitis, otitis media, peritonitis, supprative pneumonia, burns, septicema, sinustis, tonsillitus, wounds, hemolytic streptococci, pneumococci, anaerobic streptococci, gonococci, meningococci, anaerobic clostridia, diphtheria bacilli, anthrax organisms, and the spirochetes of syphilis. So as you can see Penicillin can be used on many different diseases. Sir Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin. Sir Alexander Fleming lived from 1881 to 1955. Fleming was a British bacteriologist who in nineteen forty-five was the co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for medicine. He sha
While all this was going on the world was not sitting still. A major event in world history was taking place. World War Two was going on and the United States was going to stay out of it but the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor. So they forced us to retaliate. The war made everything tough for everybody. People had to ration almost all products. This led a lot of people to go to the Black Market. During the war over 7,000,000 women stepped up to the workforce. In early 1942 the government rounded up 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. All of them were taken to ten internment camps know as relocation centers, in California, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Arkansas. Japanese Americans living in Hawaii, were they made up a third of the population were did not have to go to the camps. Here are some of the most important dates in the nineteen forty's, and they are as follows: September 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland, two days later Great Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany; November 4, 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to third term; August 9-12 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet off New Foundland to sign the Atlantic Charter; December 7, 1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor; December 8, 1941 United States declares war on Japan; December 11, 1941 Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; May 12, 1942 First mass slaughter of Jews by gas at Auschwitz; November 7, 1944 Franklin D Roosevelt
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