Tag: Medical discoveries

In 2016, doctors in the U.S. wrote over 63 million prescriptions for penicillin, a drug once referred to as the “Queen of drugs” due to its monumental impact on treating bacterial infections. This remarkable antibiotic, discovered by accident, launched the era of modern medicine by providing a weapon against previously untreatable and often fatal diseases.

Since its development for widespread use in the 1940s, penicillin is credited with saving millions of lives and was pivotal in World War II, dropping the death rate from bacterial pneumonia in soldiers from 18% to less than 1% [1.7.4]. So, **which drug is called Wonder drug?** For most, the answer is **penicillin**, the antibiotic that transformed medicine [1.2.1].