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The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat Pdf

The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat
Author: Eric Lax
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0805077782

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Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in his London laboratory in 1928 and its eventual development as the first antibiotic by a team at Oxford University headed by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain in 1942 led to the introduction of the most important family of drugs of the twentieth century.

Yet credit for penicillin is largely misplaced. Neither Fleming nor Florey and his associates ever made real money from their achievements; instead it was the American labs that won patents on penicillin's manufacture and drew royalties from its sale Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat medical books pdf for free. . . perhaps the most exciting tale of science since the apple dropped on Newton's head."
-Simon Winchester, The New York Times

Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in his London laboratory in 1928 and its eventual development as the first antibiotic by a team at Oxford University headed by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain in 1942 led to the introduction of the most important family of drugs of the twentieth century Neither Fleming nor Florey and his associates ever made real money from their achievements; instead it was the American labs that won patents on penicillin's manufacture and drew royalties from its sale



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