Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming but was initially noticed by a French student Ernest Duchesne way back in 1896. Penicillin is regarded as the first effective drug which acted against various diseases caused by Staphylococci. It was after ten years of the discovery of a ‘blue-green mould’ which generated a substance (penicillin) that could kill bacteria, that the drug was made public with mass production and low cost.
Dr. Howard Florey at Oxford University was the first one to try to grow penicillin in a large quantity by the classical surface-growth method. In 1941, penicillin was growing 10 times more because of the research of a lab expert Moyer, on the nutrition of the mould. Furthermore, it was Dr. Andrew J. Moyer itself, who received the patent for the method of the mass production of penicillin in 1948. The high amount of drug and low cost helped doctors and scientists make penicillin available for ailing soldiers at the time of the World War.