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In our daily lives, it’s easy to overlook the significance of past technological advancements. Today if you contract an infection from a virus or cut, you don’t fear for your life. But that wasn’t true 100 years ago. Without the discovery of penicillin, it’s possible we might not even be alive today. Trevor Stone, DSc, head of pharmacology at the University of Glasgow and author of the recent book Pills, Potions and Poisons: How Drugs Work said, “Without penicillin, 75% of the people now alive would not be alive because their parents or grandparents would have succumbed to infections.” Penicillin is widely considered the most important drug discovery of all time. Another drug on Stone’s top 10 list is morphine, the forerunner of several generations of anesthesia and pain-alleviating drugs. Stone states, “Without morphine, untold numbers of people would have spent their lives in great pain."