WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first patient was successfully treated for streptococcal septicemia in the United States in 1942. However, supply was limited and demand was high in the early days of penicillin. Penicillin helped reduce the number of deaths and amputations of troops during World War II.

Detailed explanation-2: -Drug companies were very interested in this discovery and started making penicillin for commercial purposes. It was used widely for treating soldiers during World War II, curing battlefield wound infections and pneumonia. By the mid-to late 1940s, it became widely accessible for the general public.

Detailed explanation-3: -Service members received atabrine-a group of medications used to protect against malaria-before going into affected areas. Service members were also inoculated with vaccinations for smallpox, typhoid, tetanus, cholera, typhus, yellow fever and bubonic plague, depending where they were sent.

Detailed explanation-4: -The clinical impact of penicillin was large and immediate. By ushering in the widespread clinical use of antibiotics, penicillin was responsible for enabling the control of many infectious diseases that had previously burdened mankind, with subsequent impact on global population demographics.

Detailed explanation-5: -What improvement made to penicillin during World War II saved many soldiers’ lives? The lives of numerous soldiers were saved because. The US realized that the main reason soldiers died was an infection. Penicillin cured infections.

Detailed explanation-6: -The first patient Albert Alexander, a 43-year-old policeman, was treated with penicillin on 12 February 1941. The stories normally have it that Albert Alexander had scratched his face on a rose bush, the wound had become infected and the infection had spread.