A history of medicine lesson on the development of penicillin. It sets the discovery in the context of germ theory and vaccination, then follows Fleming, Florey and Chain and looks at the factors that turned a chance discovery into a mass produced drug, including government, war and technology.
What this presentation covers
- prevention and cure before antibiotics
- Alexander Fleming’s discovery in 1928
- Florey and Chain’s research
- the role of government funding
- the impact of the Second World War
- individuals, technology, industry and chance as factors
Level: KS3 / GCSE
Slides: 10
Format: PowerPoint (.pptx)