‘Trail Blazers’
Date
1944
Creator
Ben Harrison (American) , Journalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 141mm
width (print): 99mm
width (print): 99mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Three-panel cartoon graphic showing trailblazing medical discoveries: penicillin, by Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey; Louis Pasteur’s work on fermentation; and the first injection of blood plasma on a human by Max Maurice Strumia (1896-1972) and its use by US Armed Forced in 1940.
Newspaper cutting from the Milwaukee Deutsche Zeitung (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 1933-1950), 7 November 1944.
Annotated in ink with the date 11/7/1944. Initialled lower right ‘SC’, possibly for the illustrator. From the archive collection of Howard Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898–1968), experimental pathologist and bacteriologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941 and served as President from 1960 to 1965.
Newspaper cutting from the Milwaukee Deutsche Zeitung (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 1933-1950), 7 November 1944.
Annotated in ink with the date 11/7/1944. Initialled lower right ‘SC’, possibly for the illustrator. From the archive collection of Howard Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898–1968), experimental pathologist and bacteriologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941 and served as President from 1960 to 1965.
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