Antibiotiques

Near fine/Vg (clean intact unclipped dj with one small tear head of spine, clean brown cloth with bright gilt titles on spine,a very clean tight bright copy with no marks or inscriptions)octavo 217pp. First edition. Biography of Sir Ernst Chain, a significant figure in the use of the semi-synthetic penicillins which, from the mid-1950s onwards, evolutionized the use of the antibiotic in more than one field of medicine.