Antibiotics         An antibiotic, is defined to be a drug produced by certain microbes. Most doctors use antibiotics to help fight the germs in a patient. Antibiotics are obtained from plants, fungi, air, water, soil, just about anything on earth. Antibiotics kill and attack the germ or virus in the body, but do not hurt the human cells, ordinarily. The antibiotics are used to treat many various types of diseases, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and several …showed first 75 words of 1009 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1009 total…tests on humans and is approved by the FDA the drug may go on sale.         Antibiotics are a great invention, perhaps one of the best. They help people survive through diseases and infections, that would otherwise kill them. Antibiotics save lives, and there aren't many other inventions that can do that. Bibliography CD-ROM Reference 'Antibiotics.' Microsoft Bookshelf. 1995 ed. Encyclopedias 'Antibiotics.' World Book Encyclopedia. 1992 ed. Magazines 'The end of antibiotics.' Newsweek 28 Mar. 1994: 47-51.