To the Editor: The patronising article by Goldsworthy and McFarlane on the discovery of penicillin1 depicts the popular heroic view of Alexander Fleming as a myth, but also promulgates myths of its own.
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- 1 University of Melbourne Department of Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
- 2 St Vincent's Clinic, Sydney, NSW.
- 3 Private practice, Adelaide, SA.
- 4 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville South, SA.
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