“If they can make penicillin out of mould, they surely can make something out of you…”
Muhammad Ali
The WHO lists the discovery of Penicillin as one of the top five medical innovations, in a list with no particular order. As a graduate of the University the Adelaide Medical School, the Fleming/Florey story is well ingrained. I recently walked past St Mary’s Hospital in London. Just off Praed Street there is a little doorbell labelled the Sir Alexander Fleming Museum. If you ring the bell a delightful, elderly woman will greet you and accompany you up an ancient, winding set of stairs. With a key from Game of Thrones she will open the door to a tiny room. Sadly, she allows no photography, but I can tell you is is full of dirty test tubes, Petri dishes and microscopes, just as Fleming left it upon his death. There are in fact three large windows overlooking Praed Street. Whether the anecdote about mould entering these windows and contaminating a Staph culture is accurate is unclear, but our elderly guide let it slip that Fleming was notorious for never cleaning up properly. #agiftforthewholeworld #letsmakelemonade
Pen Paint and Scalpel 