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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Fleming's Pencillin Discovery
This book was purchased for my 12 year old grandson who had to do a science project on famous scientists. I read the book along with him and found that the story was very well written and easily understood by a 12 year old about a subject that is rather complex. Petri dishes, bacteria, fungus molds, wound infections are not in the general vocabulary of a child this age...
Published on May 9, 2007 by John P. Capelli, MD
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Fleming was careless, but smart, this author is just careless
The book is short, well written, but there are three serious errors. On page eight, the author confuses streptococci with staphyolcocci. The author gets it backward, bescribing staphylococci as if they were streptococci and vice versa. The author does a good job of describing Edward Jenner's observation that milkmaids, prone to developing the...
Published on October 5, 2009 by Stephen L. Gregg
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Fleming's Pencillin Discovery,
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This review is from: Alexander Fleming and the Story of Penicillin (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) (Library Binding)
This book was purchased for my 12 year old grandson who had to do a science project on famous scientists. I read the book along with him and found that the story was very well written and easily understood by a 12 year old about a subject that is rather complex. Petri dishes, bacteria, fungus molds, wound infections are not in the general vocabulary of a child this age. From this book, he generated a report and put together a poster explaining Fleming's accidental discovery and gave a oral presentation to his class. He received special commendation and a mark of 105%. It would not have been done without the information and clarity of this particular book.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Fleming was careless, but smart, this author is just careless,
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This review is from: Alexander Fleming and the Story of Penicillin (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) (Library Binding)
The book is short, well written, but there are three serious errors.
On page eight, the author confuses streptococci with staphyolcocci. The author gets it backward, bescribing staphylococci as if they were streptococci and vice versa. The author does a good job of describing Edward Jenner's observation that milkmaids, prone to developing the relatively trivial ailment cowpox, did not contract the potentially lethal disease,smallpox. Coxpox was the first vaccine.I was disappointed then, when the author described Erlich's "606" magic bullet as a vaccine. Erlich's medicine killed the germ that causes syphilis, it didn't immunize against syphilis.It was not a vaccine. On page 54 the reader is told that Edward Jenner injected "weakened bacteria" and prevented disease. Vaccinia is not a bacterium, it is a virus. These objections are fussy.Scientists and physicians need to be fussy. You want your surgeon, your infectious disease consultant and your family doctor to be fussy. I've decided to send this book to my granddaughter with appropriate corrections in the margins. Perhaps the most important meesage in this slender little volume is that she can't believe everything she reads, even if it's published. Stephen Gregg, M.D. |
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Alexander Fleming and the Story of Penicillin (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) by John Bankston (Library Binding - October 1, 2001)
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