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Informationen zum Autor Dr Wainwright is Senior Lecturer in Microbiology at the University of Sheffield, where he teaches Mycology and Environmental Microbiology. His research interests include studies of the ecology and physiology of fungi and the history of microbial antagonism and the discovery of antibiotics. He obtained his BSc in 1971 and his Ph.D in 1974, both from the University of Nottingham, and spent a short period in Canada as a National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow before taking up his present position at Sheffield. In 1984 with a colleague, Harold Swan, he discovered records of the first clinical use of penicillin, and he is currently actively researching the neglected role of Albert Schatz in the discovery of streptomycin. He is married with a daughter aged eight and a son aged five. Klappentext In this non-specialist account of the discovery of penicillin, streptomycin and other antibiotics, Milton Wainwright draws together historical facts about the pioneers of some six thousand antibiotics which have been described to date. He discusses the antecedents of antibiotics, providing evidence to show that moulds have been used in folk medicine since antiquity to treat infections. A description of the even more bizarre use of live maggots to treat bacterial infections shows the desperate measures to which doctors had to resort before the advent of antibiotics. Zusammenfassung A non-specialist history of antibiotics! including penicillin! streptomycin and others. Wainwright discusses the antecedents of modern antibiotics and the antiquity of moulds to treat infection. He concludes with a discussion on recent developments in modern antibiotic research.
