Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2320

ALEXANDER FLEMING (1881-1955) On the antibacterial action of cultures of penicillium, with special reference to their use in the isolation of B. influenzae. (In British journal of experimental pathology. Vol. 10 (1929), no. 3, pp. 226-236.) 24.1 cm.

A native of Scotland, Fleming studied medicine at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London. In 1906, immediately after graduation, he began working in the laboratory of Sir Almroth Wright at St. Mary's Hospital. He spent his entire career at St. Mary's, becoming professor of bacteriology in 1929. A noted scientist, his major areas of research were in immunology, bacteriology, and chemotherapy. His most significant publications are those on antiseptics, the antibacterial substance lysozyme, and the present paper on penicillin which ushered in the age of antibiotics. Fleming (with Ernst B. Chain and Howard W. Florey) received the Nobel prize in 1945 for the discovery of penicillin and the subsequent investigation of its chemotherapeutic properties.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1933