'The History of Penicillin' collected published and some unpublished material

Journal and magazine articles, newspaper cuttings, off-prints, journals, exhibition catalogues, book reviews, texts of addresses, and related correspondence all relating to the history and story of penicillin, brought together by Heatley. A few pieces are undated. (Some items may well duplicate material in other files). Originally stored in 2 box files, one marked 'up to 1980' and one marked 'post 1980' although the contents were actually of mixed dates in both box files. Items include:

Booklet illustrated with many photographs, 'The Story of Penicillin' by George Lacken with a foreword by Alexander Fleming (Pilot Press Ltd, London 1945).

Booklet 'A Decade of Antibiotics in America' by Kenneth B Raper, reprinted from Mycologia Vol XLIV, No.1, January-February 1952.

Booklet 'The Story of Pencillin' issued for an exhibition held at Fortnum & Mason Ltd, Piccadilly, in collaboration with St Mary's Medical School, London, Jul 1955.

Reviews of The Birth of Penicillin by Ronald Hare (Allen & Unwin 1970).

Readers Digest Dec 1973 containing article 'Dr Florey's Healing Bullet' by Lennard Bickel.

Off-print of an article published in Las Ciencias, vol XLIII, Num.3 (Sep 1978) 'En el cincuentenario del descubrimiento de la penicilina' by Florencio Bustinza Lachiondo.

Photocopy of an article 'Wartime Industrial Development of Penicillin in the United States', by W H Helfand, H B Woodruff, K M H Coleman and D L Cowen (unknown publication, c.1978).

Copies of papers from Research News, (Science and Education Administration United States Department of Agriculture) documenting, using declassified documents from the Northern Regional Research Center, Peoria, Illinois, how 'Chronology contrasts penicillin research progress with war needs', 1980.

Paper by Richard Burghart, Department of Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, 'Penicillin: An ancient Ayurvedic medicine', 1980s.

Off-print 'Science, Government, and the Mass production of Penicillin' by Peter Neushul, from the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Vol 48, No. 4, Oct 1993.

Correspondence with Kirsty Murray re her biography of Florey for children, Howard Florey, Miracle-Maker to be published by Allen & Unwin 1998.

Paper by Henry Harris, on penicillin at Oxford, with Heatley's comments, Apr 1999.

Typescripts (by Heatley?) one entitled 'The Story of Penicillin' on the first patients to be treated with penicillin in the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford 1941, one entitled 'The early work on pencillin at Oxford'.

Articles on the roles of Fleming, Chain and Abraham in the discovery and development of penicillin.

Heatley's typescript notes on the scientists involved in the development of penicillin in Oxford and the USA, their characters, physical description and role in events (including Chain, Howard Florey, Ethel Florey, Andrew Moyer, George Glister, John Fulton, Robert Coghill, James Kent, Oxford and Peoria working environment)

Note that parts 1-2 are in box 17, parts 3-6 in box 18.

1941-1999

1 file (in 6 parts)