NO STRANGE STORY ABOUT PENICILLIN
- Received Fridav, 7.0 p-.iu. LONDON, Oct. 3. Tlie discoverer of peiiicillin, Su* Alexander Fleming, speakirig at the Pharmaceutical College, London, said niany strauge stories had been told about the origiit of his discoverv. The truth was, however, that he found that a blue mould which had accidentaiiy formed on a culture plate of bacteria, was destroying tlie bacteria. He noticed this C{uite casually, then became inter ested and finallv found that the mould formed a powerful non-poisonons antiseptic whioh. he nanied penieillin.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 October 1947, Page 6
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87NO STRANGE STORY ABOUT PENICILLIN Chronicle (Levin), 4 October 1947, Page 6
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