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Sources Guide: Antibiotics
Personal Papers
Societies and Associations
RAMC
Wellcome Archives
Other
Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue
In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk
Personal Papers
Professor Sir Ernst Boris CHAIN (1906-1979) PP/EBC
Lectures, notes, reports and correspondence relating to penicillin research, 1930s-40s; correspondence, press-cuttings and miscellaneous papers relating to his Nobel Prize, 1945, 1950s, 1975
Leonard COLEBROOK (1883-1967) PP/COL
Publication on the use of penicillin in the treatment of burns, 1943
Journal articles relating to the use of sulphonamides and sulphanilamide, 1930s-1940s
Stuart CRADDOCK (1903-1972) MS 8441
Craddock worked with Fleming at St Mary’s 1928-31. Small group of papers includes his own research on penicillin and acne, a memoir of Fleming, and correspondence with Fleming, Lady Fleming, Ronald Hare, Norman Heatley, and Prof Bustinza of Madrid, 1920s-70s
Sir Alexander FLEMING (1881-1955) MS 7809
Letters to Dr David Thomson, 1944-1953; photocopies of letters, 1945-1946
Charles Montague FLETCHER (1911-1995) PP/CMF
Articles and letters relating to Fletcher's involvement in the first clinical investigations of Penicillin and administering the first injection to a human patient, 1984-93
Professor Ronald HARE (1899-1986) PP/HAR
In 1955 there was a possibility that Hare would be involved in a biography of Sir Alexander Fleming and although he was not, he continued his research. Correspondence, biographical material, notes, cuttings, articles and photographs relating to the discovery of penicillin and Alexander Fleming, 1940s-1970s
Philip D’Arcy HART PP/PDH
Material on trials of Streptomycin in tuberculosis, 1946-8
Norman George HEATLEY (b.1911) PP/NHE
Laboratory notebooks, diagrams of apparatus and correspondence relating to research into and the development of penicillin, 1939-1944; ; subsequent materials on the story of penicillin, 1940s-2000s
Thomas Cecil HUNT (1901-1980) GC/46
Correspondence with Lord Florey, 1945-60, with articles, etc, on discovery of penicillin; correspondence with Stanley Clayton, 1966, includes 1935 letter from Colebrook about Prontosil
Professor James Walter McLEOD (d.c.1978) GC/268
Minute book of Central Penicillin Committee, Leeds, 1944-1945
Robert Gwyn MACFARLANE (1907-1986) PP/RGM
Notes and drafts for his biographies of Sir Alexander Fleming and Lord Florey, 1960s-1980s
Brenda MORRISON (b.1916) GC/240
Her memoir 'Reminiscences of a woman doctor, 1933-1956' contains descriptions of developments in contemporary medicine, including antibiotics
Professor Frederick MURGATROYD (1902-1951) GC/27
Scripts of BBC radio broadcasts on tropical diseases, 1948-51, include impact of antibiotics
Frederick PARKES WEBER (1863-1962) PP/FPW
Notes, cuttings, reprints, correspondence etc. relating to penicillin, antibiotics and sulphonamides, 1910s-1950s
Societies and Associations
BRITISH SOCIETY OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY (f.1971) SA/AMC
Minutes, including editorial board of the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy; meetings programmes; newsletters; reports and discussion documents; records of international conferences attended, 1970s-1990s
RAMC
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENTS COLLECTION RAMC
Ms notes relating to penicillin powder for brain injuries, 1944; pamphlets relating to penicillin, 2nd World War; text of talk relating to streptomycin, Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, 1947; Major R R Hughes's correspondence relating to post-penicillin jaundice, 1945-6; report from Penicillin Control Centre, ALFSEA, 1945; chapter on penicillin for Medical History of
the War, 1947
Wellcome Archives
WELLCOME FOUNDATION WF
Records of the pharmaceutical company contain a significant amount of material on the various antibiotics (human and veterinary) it produced, 1940s-90s. There are a few photographs of penicillin production, c. 1940s, among Dr Kellaway’s slides in WELLCOME ARCHIVES: Photographs WA/PHO/Kel
Other
WELLCOME WITNESS SEMINARS GC/253
Correspondence, tapes, photographs, attendance lists for Wellcome Witness Seminar number 8, Committee on Safety of Drugs. Includes discussion of penicillin, the Penicillin Act and sulphonamides, 1995-7
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