Penicillin: From Fleming to the Pharmacy

Penicillin's discovery by Alexander Fleming in 1929 gets a lot of hype as the advent of antibiotics. But in reality, Fleming was just one part of the story. A team from Oxford University led by Howard Florey, in partnership with the Northern Lab in the USA brought penicillin production to the world. In this video, Patrick Kelly tells the history of penicillin.

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Miracle Cure, the Creation of Antibiotics https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Cure-C...

Science, Government, and the Mass Production of Penicillin by PETER NEUSHUL (1993)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24623264
The Discovery of Penicillin: New Insights After More Than 75 Years of Clinical Use (2017) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Post- penicillin antibiotics https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Fleming biographies
https://www.aai.org/About/History/Not...
https://sciencehistory.org/education/...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Fleming’s 1917 Flavine paper
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...
Fleming’s WW1 notebook clippings
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/al...
Fleming’s 1929 Penicillin paper
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Fleming’s 1932 Lysozyme retrospective in Journal of Royal Society of Medicine
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jrsa...
Fleming BMJ 1941 correspondence
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Did Fleming deserve the Nobel? https://link.springer.com/content/pdf...

Beta-lactam pharmcology
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja03...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Florey and Chain biography https://sciencehistory.org/education/...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/t...
Ramon y Cajal biography https://history.nih.gov/pages/viewpag...
Florey letters https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
Republication of 1940 Penicillin as Chemotherapeutic Agent https://journals.lww.com/clinorthop/f...
Howard Florey and the Development of Penicillin https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/532209
History of Corn! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...
Anne Miller and the New Haven hospital https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-m...
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/09/us...
Younkin’s economic model (2008) https://irle.berkeley.edu/culture/pap...

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⌛T I M E S T A M P S ⌛
0:00 intro
0:37 Alexander Fleming and St. Mary’s4
4:27 Penicillin pharmacology
8:37 The Oxford Crew
12:44 1939 Mouse Experiment
16:14 Penicillin Production
24:47 The Economics of Penicillin
27:37 The Problems with Penicillin

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