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\WHEN 4ZB first started on the series, "Drama of Medicine," I thought that it was bound, sooner or later, to get around to the fascinating subject of penicillin. There certainly is enough drama in the story of penicillin to fill several programmes, but not when it is toid in this fashion. Dr. Howard Florey sounded just like Young Dr. Kildare, and the tense moments of pulse-taking and -_respiration-observing sounded more or less like a class of V-.A.’s in training. There was a woman (nurse? wife? friend?) who did nothing, presumably, for a couple of years but pour cold water on the doctor’s fondest dreams and aspirations, and yet at the end of the chapter he still put up with her hanging around the hospital. Surely just a plain account of the discovery and application of the "wonder drug" would sound far more realistic to the common man than this highly-dramatised serial presentation. There was a previous programme dealing with penicillin, and there was to be a sequel, also dealing with it. I am not sorry that I missed the first, and I shall not go out of my way to hear the second.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 296, 23 February 1945, Page 6
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