In this era of advanced technology and medical care, you may not imagine that even a small wound can be fatal in that era full of smoke and war. You may feel a little exaggerated, but it is not exaggerated. Under the background of smoke and lack of materials, many soldiers died not because of war, but because of disease. It was not until the appearance of penicillin that this situation was reversed. So what is penicillin? Let's talk about it today

What is penicillin?

Penicillin is the earliest penicillin. As we all know, penicillin has very strong antibacterial activity, which can inhibit wound inflammation and reduce swelling in time. The invention of penicillin is called a beautiful accident. Alexander Fleming, the inventor of penicillin, cultivated many highly pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus for research in order to complete a paper on Staphylococcus. But Alexander cultivated staphylococcus and went on holiday. After a long time, Alexander came home and found that the container was full of blue mold, but the originally highly pathogenic staphylococcus was gone. This is early penicillin.

After later separation and processing, penicillin was produced in large quantities in the form of drugs until it was popularized all over the country. Therefore, we are happy when we are born in this era, and we are born with sufficient materials and medicines.

Why is penicillin so valuable in wartime?

But you would never think that in wartime, in order to get penicillin, the two countries fought at the expense of money and manpower. It can be said that penicillin can't even buy gold, and its value can be imagined. In that special era, soldiers went to the battlefield and naturally left wounds. These places injured by sharp tools and iron are very vulnerable to bacterial invasion until the wound begins to become inflamed and swollen. It was just a small wound, but it lost its life because there was no medical emergency. The safety of soldiers is not guaranteed, and the combat effectiveness of the army naturally declines.

According to statistics, in the American Civil War, the number of soldiers who died of diseases was as high as 6.5438+0.8 million, far exceeding the number of war deaths. In addition, at the beginning of World War I, typhoid fever killed10.5 million soldiers in Serbia, and the situation in Russia was even worse, with the death toll of typhoid fever reaching about 3 million. It can be seen that penicillin is not only a war drug, but also closely related to the survival of the people of the country. Although it is not a powerful war machine, with it, the victory of the war is guaranteed. You know, people fight, not machines. So it is no exaggeration to say that penicillin is worth more than gold.

Therefore, being born in this era of peace and prosperity is the luckiest thing for each of us. Only by cherishing the present can we live up to the sacrifice we have earned with our lives.