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Medicine

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Collection

Research notebooks of Professor George Brownlee and his assistants

Laboratory notebooks of Professor George Brownlee, the E.P. Abraham Professor of Chemical Pathology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.
Extents: 4.0 Linear metres (28 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1971-2008
Collection

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology: Administrative Papers

Administrative papers of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford (held as part of the University of Oxford's archives).
Extents: 6.4 Linear metres (76 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1906-2006
Single Item

Two letters from Charles Fletcher to his sister describing his clinical trials of penicillin

(Fols. 88-89) Two letters from Charles Fletcher to his sister Anne Hopkinson which touch on his involvement in the development of penicillin in 1941. As a clinician at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, Fletcher worked with the soon to be Nobel-prize winning scientists at the University of Oxford's Sir William Dunn School of Pathology to perform the first clinical trials of penicillin. On 17 January 1941 he had administered the first ever injection of penicillin into a human patient. In…
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fols. 88-89
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 21 Feb, 25 May 1941