M C Hamster wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008 21:09:43 -0700 (PDT), Father Haskell
> <fatherhaskell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Apparently she was a highly gifted scientist, but was taken
>> more seriously as a children's book illustrator. True that
>> Fleming wasn't the real discoverer?
>
> Here's an article on this:
>
http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/pharm/antibiot/readings/potter.htm
>
> She was a mycologist (i.e., studied fungi). That seems to have been
> as close as she got to penicillin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin
"The discovery of penicillin is usually attributed to Scottish scientist
Sir
Alexander Fleming in 1928 and the development of penicillin for use as a
medicine is attributed to the Australian Nobel Laureate Howard Walter
Florey.
However, several others had noted earlier the bacteriostatic effects of
Penicillium: The first published reference appears to have been in 1875,
when it was re****ted to the Royal Society in London by John Tyndall[1].
Ernest Duchesne do***ented it in his 1897 paper; however it was not
accepted
by the Institut Pasteur because of his young age. In March 2000, doctors
at
the San Juan de Dios Hospital in San Jose (Costa Rica) published
manuscripts
belonging to the Costa Rican scientist and medical doctor Clodomiro
(Clorito) Picado Twight (1887-1944). The manuscripts explained Picado's
experiences between 1915 and 1927 about the inhibitory actions of the
fungi
of genera Penic. Clorito Picado had re****ted his discovery to the Paris
Academy of Sciences, yet did not patent it, even though his investigation
had started years before Fleming's."
So it depends what value of 'discovered' you wish to apply.
--
John Dean
Oxford
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