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In 1945, the three scientists, Fleming, Florey and Chain, shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work.

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M7U2 Reading Two __________ medicines

This article will ________________ two drugs that started _____________ in medicine. If you ______________ any medicine ____________ or go to any medicine ____________in the world, ______________________ you will find aspirin and penicillin. Both of these medicines have saved millions of people’s lives and have _____________________________________ since they were invented.

Aspirin

Aspirin was invented in 1897. However, the basic chemical used to make aspirin can be found ____________. Nearly 3,500 years ago, people _________________ leaves or drank a kind of tea made from leaves _________________________________ to reduce body pains and fever. About 2,500 years ago, the Greek _______________ Hippocrates, father of all doctors, made a juice from a tree bark ____________ salicylic acid for the same effect. ___________ in 1897 ________ a European _________ called Dr Felix Hoffmann produced aspirin from this chemical. The first ___________ of this medicine ____________ in 1899, when the company Hoffmann worked for began _______________ the medicine ___________________ to _____________ to use with patients. A year later, in 1900, aspirin was sold in shops ______________________. Within a short time, aspirin became the _______________ medicine in the world for _________ .

__________________ aspirin proved _______________ for reducing fever and helping stop pain, but there are also other things that aspirin can help with. Lawrence Craven, a doctor from the USA, ________________________ in 1953 that aspirin ________________________________reduce the ________________________, because it helped the blood ______________ better. The report was ignored. However, in 1971, Smith and Willis from the UK proved that aspirin could have that effect, and in 1977 a study ________________ in the USA showed that aspirin could _______________. Eleven years later, Dr Thun from the USA showed that aspirin could reduce the risk of some cancers ______40 percent. In 1999, aspirin was over 100 years old, and yet there have been more discoveries about how it can help _____________________________________ . In 2003, a Chinese doctor, Dr Yuan Minsheng, found that aspirin could _____________________ and, therefore, help people with ___________.

Penicillin

Another drug that has helped _______________________ of people’s health is penicillin, which is considered by many to be one of the most important medicines _____________________. It was discovered by a Scottish scientist named Alexander Fleming in 1928. He _________ that a dish in which he was trying to __________________ for an experiment looked ____________ --- there was blue mould in it. It _____________ him to see the bacteria ____________ the mould dead, which meant that the mould had killed them. Fleming ____________________________