Word: hunterian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctor of Science: Alexander Fleming, Professor of Bacteriology in the University of London, St. Mary's Medical School; Hunterian Professor and Arriss and Gale Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons: "A bacteriologist of Great Britain whose discovery of penicillin in 1928 was the first step in the working of a modern miracle...
Napoleon Bonaparte's pickled intestinal tract has been blown to glory, according to Britain's Surgeon Rear Admiral Gordon Gordon-Taylor. It went the way of all flesh when London's Royal College of Surgeons (and its Hunterian Collection) was bombed. Also gone: the tract of "one of the lady friends of Richard...