Add MS 56165

FLEMING PAPERS. Vol. LX. [March 1929?].

ff. ii + 9. 275 x 224mm. Ring binder with hard, black cover. It was advertised as the ‘Eclipse’ ring book.

Label inside the front of the notebook is for ‘Isacke, Printer, Stationer, Account Book Maker. 133, Praed Street, W.2.’

Notebook is almost empty with a handful of different pieces of paper. Possibly incomplete. There are no dates anywhere in the notebook.

Notebook includes:

1. f. 1. List of bacteria including a note of its size and a diagram of it after it has been grown on an agar plate for three days.

2. f. 2. Piece of paper from a calendar for 19 and 20 Jan. 1929, with instructions on how to create a solution, possibly a meat culture as it involves using a bullocks heart.

3. f. 3. Notes on the influence of a serum.

4. f. 4. Typewritten notes on the therapeutic value of antiseptics.

5. f. 6. Notes on pharmaco-therapy. Methods of testing chemical agents employed for the purpose of killing microbes in the infected organism. Includes a list of preliminary investigations in vitro:

i) Water

ii) Serum

iii) Blood

iv) Comparison of action on leucocytes and on bacteria

6. f. 7. Typewritten ‘contents’ list related to antiseptics, annotated using black pen.

i) Antiseptics in serum

ii) Anti-leucocyte effect

iii) Antibacterial effect

iv) Consideration in choice of antiseptic

v) Summary

9. f. 8. Notes to the ‘lime factor’, after 24 hours exposure to flavine.

includes:

• f. 1 Bacteriology: Experiments, notes and photographs by A. Fleming rel. to bacteria: 1928-1947, n.d.
• f. 2 Chemical process: A. Fleming's instructions on how to make meat culture using a bullock heart: n.d.
• ff. 3, 6 Haematology: Experiments by A. Fleming rel. to serum: 1902-1947, n.d.
• ff. 4, 7-8 Pharmacology antiseptics: Experiments and notes by A. Fleming: 1916-1949, n.d.
• f. 6 Pharmacology: Notes by A. Fleming rel. to pharmaco-therapy: n.d.