Nav tik vienkārši ar to Flemingu
"Although Fleming recognized that penicillin might possibly have
a therapeutic use, he was far too interested in the production of
vaccines to waste much time exploring the possibility. A few discouraging
findings, and he dropped all work on it. He was also quite
uninterested in the problem of how to produce purer, stronger samples
of his new drug.
[..] The story I have just told is now a familiar one. It was Florey and
Chain, not Fleming, who demonstrated the clinical value of penicillin,
and they and their associates who began to solve the problems of
producing penicillin on an industrial scale. But their key experiment
of May 1940 could have been carried out by Fleming, who certainly
had, particularly as a result of the unappreciated work of Ridley and
Craddock, an adequate supply of penicillin to inject into mice. Had
he done this experiment in 1929 literally millions of lives could have been saved, lives that were lost without an adequate broad-spectrum
antibiotic.
[...]
The situation would thus appear straightforward: Fleming
discovered penicillin; Florey and Chain first put it to effective use.
The question of the relative contribution of Fleming on the one
hand, and Florey and Chain on the other to the revolution represented
by modern drug therapy has however distracted attention
from an even more puzzling and difficult question. In what sense can
Fleming be said to have discovered penicillin?"

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