Commentation on the late wonderful discovery of the new popish plot
Subtitle: being the Jesuits diabolick device to inveagle the son to betray the father
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1547:31
Publisher: Printed for T. Addams
Published: 1680
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Popish Plot, 1678; Poetry; History
Description: 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. Why this happened, why it took fourteen years to develop penicillin, and how it was finally done is a fascinating story of quirky individuals, missed opportunities, medical prejudice, brilliant science, shoestring research, wartime pressures, misplaced modesty, conflicts between mentors and their proteges, and the passage of medicine from one era to the next.
Notes: In verse.

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