Miscellaneous correspondence on the history of penicillin

Correspondence, mainly Heatley's, with various people on matters connected to aspects of the history of the discovery of penicillin, including Donald [?], 1969; Trevor I Williams, Oxford, 1979; Douglas Wright, Melbourne, 1983; Guy Green, Beverley Hills, California, 1984; Martin Weiss, New York Hall of Science, Mar 1991.

Includes memoranda and letters relating to a historical query about the first ever patient to be treated with penicillin (Sir George Godber had given a speech to the Society of Medical Officers of Health in 1964 stating that the first patient in Oxford to be treated with penicillin was a child with pneumococcal empyema at the Slade Isolation Hospital. The Slade was unable to confirm this from its patient case records, neither could H Florey, C M Fletcher or Heatley).

Includes Heatley's correspondence with J W Iliff, Secretary of the John Scott Award Advisory Committee, Philadelphia, USA, 1964, concerning the respective roles of Fleming, Florey and Chain in the development of therapeutic penicillin, following the committee's proposal that Florey be given the John Scott Award.

Also contains a photocopy of a letter from Mauro Baranzini to Lady Florey regarding his paper on Lord Florey, dated 22 May 1975.

1964-1991

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