Rise up to life - Lennard Bickel
a biography of Howard Walter Florey who gave penicillin to the world.
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When Howard Walter Florey took up his Rhodes scholarship at Oxford in 1922, medical practice had not radically altered in two hundred years. Doctors still had no counter to such fearsome diseases as syphilis and meningitis, no answer to pneumonia, septicaemia, diphtheria, or child-bed fever. Yet within two decades of arriving in England from his native Australia, Florey had developed penicillin, which was virtually to wipe out these killer diseases. Alexander Fleming, of course, is known world-wide as the d...
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Original boards, gilt lettered spine, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.; Foxed on top cut. [Auteur: Bickel, Lennard] [Pagina's: 314] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons] [Jaar: 1972] [Titel: Rise up to Life: A Biography of Howard Walter Flore...