"Streptomycin: Isolation, Properties, and Utilization." In: Antibiotics Number. Journal of the History of Medicine, Vol. VI, no. 3, 1951, pp. 318-347. Entire journal issue offered.

iv, pp. 279-437, [1], 2 leaves of ads. Original wrappers. Corners of wrappers and pages creased (especially lower corner of rear wrapper). Good. First Edition. Also contains: H. W. Florey & E. P. Abraham, "The Work on Pencillin at Oxford." Selman A. Waksman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1952, "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis." "For the discovery of streptomycin, Dr. Waksman received a Nobel Prize in 1952. As important as streptomycin might have been, the greatest contribution of Dr. Waksman to chemotherapy was to pioneer the systematic search for antagonistic soil microorganisms and to stress the tremendous potentialities of actinomycetes in this domain. . . . [They] have become, in great part through his efforts, the producers of the most important antibiotics of today, except for penicillin" (Lechevalier, Three Centuries of Microbiology, p. 487; Lechevalier was co-author with Waksman of the paper on the isolation of neomycin, published in 1949, see Garrison-Morton 1944). Bibliography is pp. 197-221. ABOUT HOWARD W. FLOREY: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 was awarded jointly to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".…