Howard Florey, Alexander Fleming and the fairy tale  of penicillin

Vellar, Ivo D; Hugh, Thomas B; Goldsworthy, Peter D; McFarlane, Alexander C

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04642.x

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To the Editor: The patronising article by Goldsworthy and McFarlane on the discovery of penicillin1 depicts the popular heroic view of Alexander Fleming as a myth, but also promulgates myths of its own.

1 University of Melbourne Department of Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
2 St Vincent's Clinic, Sydney, NSW.
3 Private practice, Adelaide, SA.
4 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville South, SA.

Correspondence: ivovellar@hotmail.com

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