The Mould In Dr Florey's Coat: The Remarkable True Story of the Penicillin Miracle: How Penicillin Began the Age of Miracle Cures - Hardcover

Lax, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316859257 ISBN 13: 9780316859257

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2004

Synopsis

This book was signed by author back in 2004 when he gave a talk at the Dunn school of Pathology Oxford University.

About this title

Review:

Admirable, superbly researched ... Perhaps the most exciting tale of science since the apple dropped on Newton's head (Simon Winchester, NEW YORK TIMES)

Veteran journalist and author Lax takes a revealing look back at the time when world-altering science was done on a shoestring, bringing to brilliant life the story of the first great antibiotic ... Informative and thoroughly enjoyable science history (KIRKUS REVIEWS)

[Lax] tells the stories of these four remarkable scientists adroitly . . . and reinserts them into their rightful place in scientific history. (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

A fascinating story of serendipity, wounded egos and medical myths. (GUARDIAN)

Book Description:

* Subtitled 'The Remarkable True Story of the Penicillin Miracle', this book is a wonderful combination of modern narrative history and popular science.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0316859257
• ISBN 13: 9780316859257
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400