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From: "Pat Price Flatt" <>
Subject: Re: Fleming (slightly OT)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:13:58 -0400


I also have 4 books on, Churchill, and there is no reference to a
Fleming in the index.
SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING (1881-1955)
Bacteriologist, born at Lochfield, near Darvel, Strathclyde.
...............in 1928 he discovered penicillin, for which he shared
the Noble Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1945. He was
elected to the Royal Society in 1943, and was knighted in 1944.
..........source:THE CAMBRIDGE BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
Pat

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> From: John Steele Gordon <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: Fleming (slightly OT)
> Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:04 PM
>
> wrote:
>
> > His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day,
while
> > trying to eke out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help
coming
> > from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
>
> [snip]
>
> > The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir
> > Winston Churchill.
>
> Two sources that seem obvious are Winston Churchill's Life of Lord
> Randolph Churchill and Winston Churchill's My Early Life. Randolph
> Churchill's and Martin Gilbert's multi-volume official life of Sir
> Winston is also obvious. Any half-way decent library would have all
> three.
>
> But first do a thought experiment: If the father of Britain's most
> famous 20th-century man of medicine had saved the life of Britain's most
> famous 20th-century statesman (who wasn't exactly a dunce at
> story-telling on the side or, for that matter, inclined to hide his
> light under a bushel) and as result that man of medicine received his
> medical education, don't you think that story would be as famous as any
> story of the 20th century?
>
> I just looked in the indexes of the three Churchill biographies I have
> (The official one, Martin Gilbert's one-volume life, and William
> Manchester's unfinished one. None has Alexander Fleming in the index.
>
> John Steele Gordon
>

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