by The World War Museum (Author)

Would you know how to prepare for an unforeseen emergency, or handle an unexpected disaster? This book shows you how to stay alive when tragedy strikes. It shows you how to make Insulin and Pencillin. Antibiotics changed life and medicine as we know it. Before Alexander Fleming's 1928 discovery of penicillin, there were a few options for the treatment of bacterial infections. Before Penicillin they cut off the limb or cut out that infected pound of flesh. World War II saw major advances in medical technology including the mass production of penicillin. On March 15, 1942, U.S. made-penicillin was used to successfully treat the first patient for septicemia, blood poisoning.