Penicillin

Penicillin is one of the earliest discovered and widely used antibiotic agents, derived from the Penicillium mold. Antibiotics are natural substances that are released by bacteria and fungi into the their environment, as a means of inhibiting other organisms – it is chemical warfare on a microscopic scale.

Sir Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming born August. 6, 1881 , Darvel, Scotland died March 11,…

HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Primitive medicine

In the long process of discovering which plants are edible, humans in the Stone Age also identify many which seem to cure ailments or soothe a fever.

Herbal medicine is the earliest scientific tradition in medical practice, and it remains an important part of medicine to this day – in a line descending directly from those distant beginnings. The…

Ben Carson Biography (1951-)

Neurosurgeon, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in 2008. Benjamin Solomon Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan, on September 18, 1951. The second son on Sonya and Robert Solomon Carson, Ben grew up in the hardened climate of inner-city Detroit. Ben’s mother was raised in Tennessee in…

Alternative medicine for your dog

If you take herbal supplements, have ever treated yourself to a professional massage, or have visited a chiropractor to have that creak in your back fixed – you have an understanding of the benefits of alternative medicine. And as more people realize the benefits for themselves, they take the logical next…