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Milton Wainwright, Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy, Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 3, December 2007, Pages 615–617, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkm084
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Popular accounts of the discovery of penicillin began to appear soon after the new antibiotic became a household name in the mid-1940s. One of the first and, in many ways, the best was Miracle Drug by the journalist David Masters. Subsequently, biographies have appeared on the lives of the major players in the discovery, beginning with Andre Maurois' book devoted to Alexander Fleming. There have also been published semi-autobiographical books on the industrial development of penicillin by Gladys Hobby and John Sheehan. One might imagine then that there is little left to say about the history of penicillin. Despite this, books devoted to the first, and most important, of the true antibiotics continue to appear, including Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy, which proves to be an excellent account written by Robert Bud. By devoting his book to the sociology of the penicillin story, Bud occupies a novel niche in the penicillin story.