Penicillin Practical Application by Fleming Sir Alexander (4 results)

Hardcover, 22x15cm, 380 pages, illustrated, index, bumped corners, binding a bit loose, owners name, title page is creased.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Spine uniformly sun-toned. SIGNED and inscribed by E.B. Fleming. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: x p., 1 l., 380 p. : illus., diagrs. ; 23 cm. Series: Butterworth's medical publications. Notes: Includes bibliographies. Subjects: Penicillin Therapeutic use; Penicillin Pharmacology; Penicillin; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Penicillin - antibiotics - pharmacology. 1 Kg.

London, Butterworth & Co., 1946, format in-8°, x pp + 380 pp, index. Original publisher's hardback (green cloth). No dustwrapper, spine a bit discoloured, some shelfwear, still a good/fine copy. No library markings.First edition.

London, Buttewrworth & Co. (Publishers), Ltd. Bell Yard, Temple Bar, July 1946, 8°, X, 380 pp., 59 Abbildungen, orig. Leinenband. First edition, first issue of the first printing of "the only book that Fleming prepared regarding his discovery of the antibiotic properties of penicillin". Norman Alexander Fleming made his discovery in 1928 and published his earliest paper on penicillin in 1929. But the substance was difficult to purify, and did not become available in large quantities until Howard Florey and Ernest Chain successfully mass-produced it at the beginning of the Second World War. It was during this conflict that penicillin proved its worth, successfully treating hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers. This volume was published shortly after the war in the expectation that penicillin would soon be available commercially, but "there was not yet an authoritative British book for the guidance of the practitioner in its use" (preface). It contains an introduction by Fleming on his discovery of penicillin and 26 other essays on the history, manufacture, and clinical use of the drug by "experienced and eminent men" who were among the earliest to experiment with and prescribe it. A key work on the most significant medical breakthrough of the 20th-century, published while the therapy was still "very young and rapidly evolving". preface Printing and the Mind of Man 420; Garrison-Morton No.1933; Norman Libr. No. 800.