A Quote by Ann Shulgin

MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do.

Ann Shulgin

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Don't Give Up Give Penicillin See Soul Up

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Ann Shulgin
American - Author
Born: March 22, 1931

It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.

Alexander Fleming

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

Alexander Fleming

It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally speaking it may be said that the least sensitive bacteria are the Gram-negative bacilli, and the most susceptible are the pyogenic cocci ... In addition to its possible use in the treatment of bacterial infections penicillin is certainly useful... for its power of inhibiting unwanted microbes in bacterial cultures so that penicillin insensitive bacteria can readily be isolated.

Alexander Fleming

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

Elif Batuman

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

Alexander Fleming

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

Alexander Fleming

I'm recovering from a cold. I'm so full of penicillin that, if I sneeze, I'll cure someone.

Tommy Cooper

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Katherine Dunn

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

Alexander Fleming

I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin.

Rodney Dangerfield

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Robert Robinson

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

Alexander Fleming

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Douglas Coupland

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

Ronald Reagan

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

Alexander Fleming

I had pneumonia when I was 18 months old and I was given penicillin, which I was allergic to, and since then my teeth have been yellow.