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THE REAL STORY OF PENICILLIN.. Most people in the world believe that penicillin was discovered by Fleming at the beginning of the twentieth century, and that's what I have always thought before starting my studies in medicine. Unfortunately penicillin started to spread all over the world only after 1928, when Fleming published his works and his experiments. Indeed, during world war 2, when americans arrived in Italy, penicillin was known in Naples as the "American medicine", so it started to be used in Italy after 1943. Where is the problem? We could have treated so many people even before 1928 because penicillin had already been studied. An Italian man, called Vincenzo Tiberio, was a great observer: he lived in the countryside and he had a water hole (?) near his house. Inside the hole, between the water and the wall there was a layer of mold which was periodically cleaned. Tiberio saw that when the water hole was cleaned the family got intestinal diseases and understood that inside that mildew there was a powerful bactericide. He started different studies and then published his discovers. All this happened in 1885, so why did antibiotic spread only after 1928? The reason is still unknown, a hypothesis is that Tiberio had the foult of publishing his work only in italian. Nevertheless nowadays it doesn't even matter why it happend, but it's sure that in more than 30 years lots of unnecessary deaths could have been saved. I hope I wrote an interesting article. Can you correct the mistakes I made please ? :D
February 25, 2016
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Have you ever thought about how many progress medicine did in the last 50 years? Hi everyone, I'll try to write an article, can anybody correct all the mistakes I'll make? Have you ever thought about how many progress medicine did in the last 50 years? Generally, historians tend to describe the XXth century as the "short century" for different reasons, one of these reasons is that during all these years, doctors, scientists, byologists made so many discoveries and inventions in a brief period of time. Indeed we could divide this century into two parts. The first one which goes from the beginning of the century to 50s is a period full of researches, studies and experiments; then, during 50s, technology starts to spread. Sometimes it's hard to understand that antibiotics were born just at the biginning of the XXth century, thanks to Vincenzo Tiberio who discovered the penicillin. Furthermore nuclear magnetic resonance was born only in 1947, just seventy years ago, and it completely changed the history of medicine: it helped doctors to recognize and distinguish a migraine, cephalalgy from hematoma or aneurysm. Before this doctors practised so many craniotomies, with the result of killing a huge number of people who were suffering for headache, instead of treating the ones who had hematomas. And when was the anesthesia born? It was born at the end of the IXXth century, it was born with dentistry. Indeed, before this important date, the task of nurses was just to keep the patient motionless during a surgery operation. And what about neonatology? We are able to save and keep in life the 50% of the born prematurely who weigh only 500 grams. In conclusion I hope that a lot of discovers will be done in future in order to fight and destroy always more ilnesses that everyday afflict people.
February 25, 2016
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Living indipendently. I believe that leaving home in young age is a big step in a person’s life. On one hand, living away from home gives you the possibility to make your own decisions. You learn to take care of yourself and it is your responsibility to remember to pay the bills, to pay the car insurance etc. It helps to become more secure and mature. Nonetheless there are negative aspects, for instance, if you get sick, your parents will not be there to help you out. In addition you might miss not having the consolation of your family when you need it. On the other hand, living at home has its benefits. It helps save money, moreover since you do not have to worry about payments, cleaning and cooking, you have more time to dedicate to yourself. However living with the family has a price: your parents will always be there to judge your actions. As far as I am concerned living alone helps young adults become more responsible. When my brother left home he really started growing up. Now after five years he is a man, he is able to manage the house and his finances perfectly.
July 28, 2014
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This terrible summer. I've never seen a summer like this, here in Italy. Summer started on 21st of June and from that day, it rained everyday. Luckly, the only week in which we had a beautiful and hot weather was the one I went to the beach with friends. I hate cold and rain, I miss my italian summers, with 30/35 degrees everyday, that beautiful sun and that clear sky without any cloud. People say that next week everything is gonna be better, I hope they're right, I don't want to see rain anymore!
July 26, 2014
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