MANHATTAN CRUDE : in an age (and a war) consumed with Purity, the dying Dr Dawson's gift of crowd-sourced 'impure' natural penicillin was not just a global lifesaver. It was also a window into a new way of looking at the world.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Who wants to write something tiny - like the military history of WWII ?
Not when the wartime battle over penicillin offers up a macrocosm of the circumstances that led to the war and made it uniquely brutal...
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