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Penicillin has helped transform the way the medical world diagnosed and treated diseases in the twentieth century; and to think that is was all by chance. In 1928, the young Scotsman, Alexander Fleming discovered a band of bacteria surrounding a blue-green mold Staphylococcus culture. Further investigation would prove the existence and discovery of penicillin which would go on to be one of the significant discoveries in the medical field of the past century. Take a step back in time into what Fleming's laboratory would have appeared like when he made his chance discovery. Fleming would go to share the Nobel Prize for his part in discovering the culture that would help thousands of lives. Who would have thought that in a small lab in St. Mary's Hospital, that the history of medicine would be altered because of a chance observation.