Penicillin. Its Practical Application.

Published by London, Butterworth & Co., 1946.

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8vo (154 x 224 mm). X, (2), 380 pp. Signed and dated by the author on front free endpaper. With numerous photographic illustrations in-text. Near-contemporary full calf, black morocco spine labels, titled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. First edition of the first major work on penicillin made widely available outside of medical journals, signed by its Nobel-laureate author and dated 18 June 1947. - Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) was co-awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of penicillin. This work was decades in the making, and the true scale of the use of penicillin and similar antibiotics failed to gain real traction among the medical community until the Second World War. The publication of this book in 1946 was meant to introduce medical professionals to the powerful new drug, which was becoming widely available for the first time. - In excellent condition, appealingly bound. - With the library stamp of Beecham Research Laboratories, one of the first major distributors of pencillin, dated 30 Dec. 1946, on the front free endpaper. An additional ownership inscription appears to have been erased.…

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Title
Penicillin. Its Practical Application.
Author
Fleming, Alexander.
Publisher
London, Butterworth & Co., 1946.
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
Item weight
1,000 grams
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Medicine, Science, Engineering, Natural History

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