Part Two At the start of Part Two Stanley Peart continues to talk about his clinical course at St Mary's. Two important events of the clinical years are summarised: meeting his wife to be, Peggy Parkes, and early encounters with George Pickering, who was to be a seminal influence. George Pickering's career, and Lord Moran's innovations in developing academic medicine at St Mary's - setting up academic clinical units in the 1920s and encouraging research - are outlined. Stanley Peart acknowledges George Pickering's particular influence as teaching him to always support his observations and statements, and the influence of the pathologist Professor Newcombe, and describes Alexander Fleming's microbiology lectures. The interview moves on to Stanley Peart's early posts at St Mary's after qualifying in 1945, firstly in paediatrics, then as penicillin registrar in the Wright-Fleming Institute, working with Alexander Fleming and Almroth Wright. He talks of Wright's and Fleming's careers and personalities, the experience of administering penicillin in the late 1940s (it was painful for patients in its early form but could cure some dangerous infections), and learning microbiological techniques from Fleming. Part Two ends with discussion of the controversy about Fleming's relative contribution to the discovery and clinical use of penicillin, a subject which is further explored in Interview Two.
Bradford Grammar School; King's College School, Wimbledon; St Mary's Medical School; Lord Moran; Grey; Pritchard; Hugo Huggett; ADM Greenfield; Harold Stewart; wartime clinical studies; George Pickering; development of academic medicine at St Mary's; Professor Newcombe; Alexander Fleming; Almroth Wright; Wright-Fleming Institute.
Microbiology, Paediatrics, Research, Penicillin,
vid-160, MSVA_082
Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/000057
Peart, StanleyBlythe, Max
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Original artefact: 1993 RADAR resource: 2017
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