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Rachel Fuller Brown Biography
Summary: If Rachel Brown and Elizabeth Hazen had not discovered this antibiotic then there would be no effective way to fight life-threatening fungal diseases in humans. This medicine not only provided a cure for disabling fungal infections of the mouth, skin and organs inside the body but if you combine it with other drugs it balances their effects.
Rachel Fuller Brown was born on November 23, 1898 in Springfield Massachusetts. Rachel lived with her mother and brother after her parents had separated. Rachel brown attended Mount Holyoke College, and then went to teach a private school for girls. Later she went back to college for her PhD. Her area of study was Chemistry.
When She attended, Mount Holyoke She got degrees in history and chemistry but she had not decided what she wanted to do until Her mentor Dr. Emma Perry encouraged her to continue her education in organic chemistry at the university of Chicago. She obtained an m.s degree. She worked as a lab technician in the New York state health department. Rachel Brown discovered an anti-fungal medicine along with another woman Elizabeth Lee Hazen.
The medicines called nystatin named after New York State is used today for people who have gotten transplants, have cancer, and...
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