Soldiers with guns. In our cities. We're not making this up.
Florey and Chain really did say that about Fleming, in their famous penicillin grant application to the British Medical Research Council in September 1939.
It hardly squares with their claim for a place in the eternal scientific sun for finally doing the animal tests that Fleming didn't do.
But it does explain why they didn't do any animal testing with penicillin between Spring 1938 to Spring 1940 - and only then over Florey's loudly protesting dead body.
Why bother?
"Fleming's already done that."
But if the tests had been done in Spring '38, we might have had plenty of commercial penicillin by September 1939.... saving many,many lives...
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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