Penicillin standardization

Papers and correspondence relating to the adoption of an International Standard for Penicillin and the Penicillin Unit. Includes papers from the International Conference on a Standard and Unit for Penicillin, 1944, and reports of the meetings of the Penicillin Assay Panel, 1943. Plus 'Memorandum on the International Penicillin Standard and the International Penicillin Working Standard' produced by the League of Nations Health Organisation Dec 1945; 'The International Standard and Unit for Penicillin', Bulletin of the Health Organisation, Volume XII, No.2, 1945/46, published by the League of Nations (Heatley's own copy); copy of 'The British National Standard for Penicillin', produced by the Department of Biological Standards, National Institute for Medical Research, 15 Mar 1946; typescript notes (undated, probably by Heatley) entitled 'Rough Copy. Notes on Assay of Penicillin'.

Also includes bound reprint of the Society of Public Analysts and Other Analytical Chemists Physical Methods Group and Biological Methods Group 'Symposium on methods of penicillin assay: their purpose, scope and validity', originally published in The Analyst 1948, 72, pp.197-216, 244-257. This includes Heatley's paper 'Biological methods for penicillin assay. An introductory survey' (separate copies in D/1/3) as well as papers by E Lester Smith, W R Boon, Stella J Patterson and W B Emery, G H Twigg, C G Pope, C R Bond and O L Davies.

1943-1948

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