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FLEMING, ALEXANDER (Ed.). Penicillin: Its Practical Application. London: Butterworth & Co., 1946. 1st ed. 8vo. 10,[2],380 pp., illus. Orig. cloth, rubbed & lightly soiled. Index.Medical school library stamp on title & front endpaper. $225.00

 

Intended as an authoritative guide to the clinical use of penicillin at a time when it was just becoming widely available. Fleming, who has contributed a sketch of the history of penicillin in addition to acting as general editor, discovered the wonder-drug in 1929 and received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1945.