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- Help! The pharaoh is sick!
- The use of moldy bread was the earliest version of today's penicillin.
- Long ago, the Ancient Egyptians had the first notions of medicine.
- I have a remedy! Moldy bread will help!
- Several centuries later, the Polish had their own adaption of this remedy: Wet bread and spiderwebs.
- China, Greece and Rome also used moldy bread as antibiotics.
- It's good for you, I promise.
- Similar ideas in different places... could this be evidence of cultural diffusion?
- Later, in the 1800s, in the UK, a man found out that culture fluids along with mold prevented bacteria growth.
- Hmm...
- Cultural diffusion is the spread and adaption of inventions and ideas throughout different cultures.
- There was lots of research and speculation regarding mold killing bacteria in the late 1800s - early 1900s. Penicillin was finally discovered in 1928.
- It was a Scottish physician who discovered penicillin, and his name was Alexander Fleming.
- Eureka!
- We use penicillin to this day as antibiotics, just as they did hundreds of years ago.
- Penicillin has changed and improved throughout hundreds of years, and has changed the world of medicine for the better. THE END
- Hooray!
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