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Alexander Fleming Typed Letter Signed with Holographic Postscript. One page, 7 7/8 x 10 inches; Inoculation Department, St. Mary's Hospital, [London, England]; October 26, 1945. Fleming writes to Dr. David B. Shulman regarding Shulman's recent experiments with penicillin, the finances at St. Mary's Hospital and the hospital's 100th anniversary fundraising campaign. In part: "It pleases me very much to think that you have been able to cure your turkeys with penicillin...When are you going to publish your results?...I have to thank you for your offer to help in our Centenary Appeal...What we want to do is to rebuild the old hospital and extend it so that we can have about 800 beds and make it worthy of the work which is done there...As regards the Inoculation Department finances. We have in the past maintained this Department by preparing vaccines and other things for distribution to doctors. I have a fear that in these days of State interference with everything the State may take on the manufacture of all these things and it is for this reason especially that I am very anxious that the laboratory should have a foundation so that it might carry on its good work without too much Government interference." Signed, "Alexander Fleming." Fleming adds a holographic postscript: "You may have seen in the papers that the Penicillin producers collected $100,000 as an Alexander Fleming Fund to assist our researches at S: Mary's Hospital, that was exceedingly kind but I am anxious about our endowment."Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) was a Scottish bacteriologist best known for discovering penicillin, the world's first antibiotic, in 1928 at St. Mary's Hospital. The development of penicillin became a lifesaving drug during World War II and forever revolutionized medicine. Fleming won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945, alongside Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain, for their discovery of penicillin and its therapeutic applications.
Condition: Flattened folds that are just starting at the margins, with minor creasing.
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2025 March 28 Historical Manuscripts Including Texana Signature® Auction #6316 (go to Auction Home page)
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