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Ep 149 - Howard Florey, Norman Heatley and a wonder drug - the penicillin partnership


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Fleming?! Pah! Behind every famous man is a team who made it work - this is the amazing story of how that team took Fleming's discovery of penicillin to the people. While Fleming discovered it, the development and production of what was hailed as a miracle drug is a much more interesting story than you would think. It's wartime England, and in a lab in Oxford university a team of scientists have made an amazing development of how to isolate and use the penicillin that Fleming discovered. But how are they going to produce this miracle drug in enough quantities to help? Find out the story of ingenuity and creativity that changed the world.

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