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Pamphlets re penicillin treatment in the Second World War, bound into a volume

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Includes the following:
<li>RAMC/1228/1: A preliminary report to the War Office and the Medical Research Council on investigations concerning the use of penicillin in war wounds by Professor H. W. Florey and Brigadier Hugh Cairns (2 copies), Oct 1943. </li>
<li>RAMC/1228/2: The treatment of infections with penicillin by Donald G. Anderson, 1945. Reprinted from the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 232, April 1945. </li>
<li>RAMC/1228/3: Memorandum on penicillin therapy in 21 Army group, Feb 1945. </li>
<li>RAMC/1228/4: Penicillin: an investigation and clinical trial, by R. Officer, John Loewenthal and J.W. Perry, Australian Army Medical Corps, c.1945. Reprinted from the Medical Journal of Australia, Nov 1944.</li>
<li>RAMC/1228/5: Typescript report on penicillin therapy in late, infected, compound fractures from Burma by Lieutenant colonel H.R.H. Harley and Major J.H. Bowie, Indian Medical Service, c.1945. </li>

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Pamphlets re penicillin treatment in the Second World War, bound into a volume

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