Bacitracin
Bacitracin, a common antibiotic found in Neosporin and other topical antibiotic creams, is named after a girl named Margaret Tracy. It was first discovered growing in a wound of Margaret infected with Bacillus subtilis.
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Bacitracin, a common antibiotic found in Neosporin and other topical antibiotic creams, is named after a girl named Margaret Tracy. It was first discovered growing in a wound of Margaret infected with Bacillus subtilis.
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That’s awesome. I used some today. Did you know that Syphilis was once a common boy’s name? Not so much, anymore, after they named a disease after one such boy.
Also, I used to work with HeLa cells without realizing they were named after Henrietta Lacks, and she might possibly be the most prolific human ever (her cells have conquered cultures across the planet):
http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0400web/01.html
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