Showing posts with label antiseptic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antiseptic. Show all posts

Thursday, March 20, 2014

1945 Nobel prize for FAILURE in Medicine to Fleming and Florey

Admittedly , complaining about the Swedes and their awarding of Nobel prizes is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.

But their famous 1945 rewarding of a Nobel prize in medicine to some of the pioneers of penicillin has to rate near the top for ineptitude.

First ever use of penicillin IN humans vs first ever use ON humans

ON vs IN 

Alexander Fleming should be credited only for the first ever use of penicillin ON humans : penicillin-the-antiseptic.

The first ever use of penicillin IN humans , penicillin-the-antibiotic , should be rightly credited to Martin Henry Dawson.