DESERT MOULD: WITOLD ODRZYWOLSKI AND HIS WORK ON CRUDE PENICILLIN IN A MILITARY HOSPITAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN 1944
DESERT MOULD: WITOLD ODRZYWOLSKI AND HIS WORK ON CRUDE PENICILLIN IN A MILITARY HOSPITAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN 1944
Author(s): Sławomir ŁotyszContributor(s): Anna Kijak (Translator)
Subject(s): Military history, Health and medicine and law, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: penicillin; Second World War; military healthcare; medicine; Polish Second Corps;
Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the activities of Witold Odrzywolski, who in 1944 was the first Pole to produce penicillin, in a military hospital in the Middle East. The paper contextualizes this achievement in a broad array of the scientific, medical, military and political determinants of the era.
Journal: Kwartalnik Historyczny
- Issue Year: 127/2020
- Issue No: 4 (en)
- Page Range: 77-103
- Page Count: 27
- Language: English