Howard Florey : The Man Who Made Penicillin

'A great fire seemed to burn within him . . . we wondered whether he would ever find the right outlet for his greatness' Sir Alan Drury Howard Florey was the brilliant, ambitious and sometimes ruthless Australian who developed penicillin, the first antibiotic, enabling a mastery of disease and death never before imagined in human history. The penicillin epic traces the fascinating, often frustrated path of Florey's drive in Britain and the United States to isolate, test and produce the 'miracle drug' that was to empty the infectious wards and revolutionize surgery - changing the pattern of world disease.