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  1. Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS [1] (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.

  2. Nov 1, 1995 · Hardcover – November 1, 1995. by Tom Alexander Sr. (Author), Tom Alexander (Editor), Jane Alexander (Editor) 4.8 7 ratings. See all formats and editions. Mountain Fever chronicles one man's love affair with a region, its unique and vanishing human culture, and its verdant natural history.

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  4. Oct 10, 2023 · Most people know the story of penicillin. Or think they do. It involves Alexander Fleming, whose life highlights the importance of being a slob sometimes—the ultimate rejoinder if someone nags you to make your bed or tidy your desk. Fleming was a short, quiet Scotsman with bright white hair. He studied microbes, and kept a filthy lab in London.

  5. Jan 1, 2005 · He called the active agent penicillin—an innovation that changed forever the treatment of bacterial infections such as pneumonia, syphilis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and previously fatal wound and childbirth infections. It made Fleming as much a household name as Albert Einstein. Einstein.

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  6. 1881 - 1955. Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house. The ...

  7. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident .”. Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician-scientist who was recognised for discovering penicillin. The simple discovery and use of the antibiotic agent has saved millions of lives, and earned Fleming – together with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, who devised methods for the large-scale ...

  8. Rocky Mountain spotted fever ( RMSF) is a bacterial disease spread by ticks. [9] It typically begins with a fever and headache, which is followed a few days later with the development of a rash. [3] The rash is generally made up of small spots of bleeding and starts on the wrists and ankles. [10]

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