The most incredible discovery: The penicillin

A hundred years ago if someone fell ill, the people thought that person would die. Now, if you have a flu, it disappears easily. And you will say: WOW! Which is this incredible invention? It is... The PENICILLIN! The penicillin is an antibiotic which cames from a mushroom. Its function is the treatment of infections caused by bacterias. Alexander Fleming was the person who discover it in 1928. Alexander and the scientists Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Walter Florey obtained the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945. This, was a very important discovery for the medecin and for the human survival.

This is the mushroom which the penecillin cames from.