THE ALEXANDER FLEMING PAPERS - British Library

Section two: 13-23 Oct. 1924.
ff. 3-5. Immunisation in vitro
i) Experiments with fresh and incubated leucocytes
ii) Experiment with de-leucocyted blood and leucocytes
iii) Experiment with faeces filtrate
Section Two: 12 May-15 Nov. 1926.
ff. 6-9. [Bacteria/ bactericidal] slide
i) Experiment with haemolytic B. coli in slide cells
ii) Experiment with haemolytic coli in slide cells in salted blood
iii) Experiment with different streptococcus in slide cells
iv) Experiment to see if killing of staphylococcus various with
thickness of the slide cell
Section Three: n.d
ff. 10-14. Worms (penicillin)
i) Experiment with different bugs in slide cells
ii) Diagram of the growth of staphylococcus in cells
iii) Experiment examining the rate of emigration of leucocytes
from worms
Section four: 30 Oct. 1928.
ff. 15-16. Discovery of Penicillin
Description of a staphylococcus inhibiting mould, including diagrams
Section five: 22 Nov. 1928-17 Jan. 1929.
ff. 17-39. Experiments with the new ‘mould’
i) Experiments with different bacteria including diagram of
results
ii) Inhibitory action of ‘mould’ broth of staphylococcus in blood
iii) Inhibition by moulds, including diagram of plate
iv) Mould inhibition and imbedded agar and mould filtrate
streaked across bugs
v) Mould planted in broth; 30 Nov.
vi) Mould inhibitions – different penicillin from milk
vii) Craddock – inhibitions streptococci by mould filtrate
viii) Mould filtrate on Pfeiffer including diagram
ix) Mould filtrate antiseptic power of Craddock’s autrium
x) Conditions of optimum growth of inhibiting mould
xi) Experiments autoclaving the mould filtrate
Section six: 29 Jan.-9 March 1929.
ff. 40-41, 43-48, 51, 55, 59. Inhibitory action
i) Mould inhibitions – penicillin 12
ii) Isolation Pfeiffer by mould inhibition
iii) Formation of inhibitory substance in mould juice