Antibiotics
An antibiotic, is defined to be a drug produced by certain microbes.
Most doctors use antibiotics to help fight the germs in a patient. Antibiotics
are obtained from plants, fungi, air, water, soil, just about anything on earth.
Antibiotics kill and attack the germ or virus in the body, but do not hurt the
human cells, ordinarily. The antibiotics are used to treat many various types of
diseases, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and several kinds of infections.
People have been using antibiotics for more than 2,500 years. They used
molds to help cure some skin infections and rashes. It was in the late 1800's
that the real study of medicine began. Louis Pasteur discovered that bacterium
was the cause of disease, and proved wrong the theory of spontaneous generation.
After him there was Robert Koch, who developed a method of isolating and growing
bacteria. Scientists tried developing drugs that could kill microbes, but they
proved to be either dangerous or ineffective.......
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