Signed by the author: the dawn of the penicillin era

Fleming, Alexander. Penicillin. Its Practical Application.

€ 8,000.00

First edition of the first major work on penicillin made widely available outside of medical journals, signed by its Nobel-laureate author and dated 18 June 1947.

Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) was co-awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of penicillin. This work was decades in the making, and the true scale of the use of penicillin and similar antibiotics failed to gain real traction among the medical community until the Second World War. The publication of this book in 1946 was meant to introduce medical professionals to the powerful new drug, which was becoming widely available for the first time.