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The first SCIENTIFIC discovery of antibiotic .. is Italian
Vincenzo Tiberio (May 1, 1869 – January 7, 1915) was an Italian researcher and medical officer of the Medical Corps of the Italian Navy and physician at the University of Naples.
During his medical studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Naples he noticed that when the walls of a well which supplied drinking water was cleaned off, the people who drank the well's water complained of intestinal disorders. After further research he published a paper ("Annali d’Igiene sperimentale” magazine ) in 1895 on the antibacterial power of some extracts of mold, thus, his work on a mold/antibiotic connection anticipated the discovery of the drug penicillin by Alexander Fleming thirty-five years later (see: Penicillin - Discovery).At the time, his work was disregarded as coincidence and received no further study.
Discovery and application are different things... Fleming was the first in the large application of antibiocs...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7048134/ Pubmed is AMERICAN and not ITALIAN...
Vincenzo Tiberio: the First in Vivo Experimental Antibiotic Therapy
Abstract
This paper describes the first in vivo experimental antibiotic therapy in the history of Medicine. In 1895, in Arzano (Naples, Italy), the physician and scientist Vincenzo Tiberio discovered the bactericidal power of the molds. Tiberio analyzed three molds (i.e., Aspergillus flavescens, Penicillium glaucum, Mucor mucedo) in the laboratory, first in vitro and then in vivo on mice and rabbits. He carried out the whole experimental cycle: from the discovery to the observation of the phenomenon, to the analysis in the laboratory, and to the production of the medicine. Vincenzo Tiberio discovered the penicillin almost thirty years earlier than Alexander Fleming.
What he lacked was the mass production and industrialization of the drug. Why? Fault of the society? Economic and cultural backwardness of Italy? Probably the international scientific community was not ready for such a revolutionary discovery, that would have saved millions of lives.
Key words: Vincenzo Tiberio - In vivo experimental antibiotic therapy -
Discovery of antibiotics
Fleming ( antibiotic application ) won NOBEL prize....... VINCENZO TIBERIO ( antibiotic scientific discovery ) did not win NOBEL prize... Who deserved the credit ?
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