Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12259

    ‘Miracle Drugs’

    Date
    1945
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 320mm
    width (print): 274mm
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    Description
    Diagram of antibiotic and pharmaceutical treatments for disease types: penicillin, streptomycin and sulfonamides, with virus diseases (unconquered). With an inset vignette of a male medical researcher looking through a microscope.

    Detail of a newspaper cutting illustrating a story by J. D. Ratcliff, ‘What about those miracle drugs’, in an unknown magazine. A residual cutting service label indicates Chicago, Illinois, 13 October 1945.

    Not signed or captioned. 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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