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RefNoHF/1/4/1/13/68
Previous numbers98HF.56.18.3
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Howard Walter Florey to E C Dodds, Courtald Institute of Biochemistry
Date12 June 1951
DescriptionDiscusses supply of polymixin for use in treating burns - commercial firms will not make it because market not sufficiently large - Porton could possibly do it - cannot be at next Porton meeting - Henderson wants to produce streptomycin by continuous fermentation - secondary importance to polymixin as streptomycin already brewed by fairly successful method.
FormatCarbon copy
AccessStatusOpen
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