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Reported extraction, assay, toxicity observations and protective activity of penicillin in experimentally infected mice, establishing preclinical chemotherapeutic evidence under the paper's conditions.
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The record is the exact seven-author 1940 Lancet paper, with names retained at the byline precision supported by the primary metadata. Its evidence is preclinical animal work, not the later human treatment series, mass production or penicillin discovery.
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E. Chain; H. W. Florey; A. D. Gardner; N. G. Heatley; M. A. Jennings; J. Orr-Ewing; A. G. Sanders
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Chain and colleagues: penicillin as a chemotherapeutic agent
Reported extraction, assay, toxicity observations and protective activity of penicillin in experimentally infected mice, establishing preclinical chemotherapeutic evidence under the paper's conditions.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact seven-author 1940 Lancet paper, with names retained at the byline precision supported by the primary metadata. Its evidence is preclinical animal work, not the later human treatment series, mass production or penicillin discovery.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
E. Chain; H. W. Florey; A. D. Gardner; N. G. Heatley; M. A. Jennings; J. Orr-Ewing; A. G. Sanders
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.