Showing posts with label penicillin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label penicillin. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

'calvinistic' genetic predestination selects the few worthy --- or HGT's 'catholic' transfer of genetic salvation to all ?

Dr Martin Henry Dawson, the Canadian who gave humanity the boon of  'public domain penicillin-for-all' in the teeth of fierce opposition from the likes of Sir Alexander Fleming and Sir Howard Florey, was raised well within the long-forgotten atmosphere of fervent Calvinist evangelical missionary efforts that peaked in the very decades of his youth, just before the Great War.

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

did Pfizer boss John L Smith and penicillin pioneer Dr MH Dawson EVER actually meet ?

I have found no evidence, yet, that the two people most responsible for making penicillin WWII's only 'Good News Story' ever actually met in person -- or even ever talked over the phone.

Despite working only a few miles apart in New York City!