The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered by the Scottish scientist Alexander Flemming in 1928The chemical structure of penicillin was worked out using X-ray ...
IN 1953 Brandl, Giovannini and Margreiter 1 produced a new form of penicillin — namely, phenoxymethylpenicillin, or penicillin V. The physical and chemical properties of penicillin V suggested ...