Pensacola was the first European-inhabited settlement in what would later become the United States of America. The first European settlement in the continental United States was Pensacola, which was established on Santa Rosa Island by conquistador Don Tristan tristÃ¡n De luna Y arellano in. 1559
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin from mold that contaminated a petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. Researchers at Oxford University experimented with the new mold that Alexander Fleming had discovered. Penicillin was actually discovered by mistake.
Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 and was first used in clinical trials in 1942. Addition of an amino group to the benzylpenicillin molecule resulted in the creation of ampicillin, a drug with a broadened spectrum of activity. Penicillin and ampicillin exert their bactericidal effect by inhibiting microbial cell wall synthesis.