Editing Alexander Fleming (section)

=== The Churchills ===
The popular story<ref>e.g., ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', 17 July 1945: Brown, ''Penicillin Man'', note 43 to Chapter 2</ref> of [[Lord Randolph Churchill|Winston Churchill's father]] paying for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved young [[Winston Churchill|Winston]] from death is false.<ref name="History: Great myths die hard"/> According to the biography, ''Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution'' by [[Kevin Brown (historian of medicine)|Kevin Brown]], Alexander Fleming, in a letter<ref>14 November 1945; British Library Additional Manuscripts 56115: Brown, ''Penicillin Man'', note 44 to Chapter 2</ref> to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia,<ref>see Wikipedia [[Discovery of penicillin]] article entry for 1920</ref> described this as "A wondrous fable." Nor did he save Winston Churchill himself during [[World War II]]. Churchill was saved by [[Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran|Lord Moran]], using [[Sulfonamide (medicine)|sulphonamides]], since he had no experience with penicillin, when Churchill fell ill in [[Carthage]] in Tunisia in 1943.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |url=https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/Vespiary/talk/files/5876-the-first-miracle-drugs-how-the-sulfa-drugs-transformed-medicine0a94.pdf |title=The first miracle drugs: how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine |vauthors=Lesch JE |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-518775-5 |location=Oxford |pages=158–159 |chapter=Chapter 7: M&B 693 |quote= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721062237/https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/Vespiary/talk/files/5876-the-first-miracle-drugs-how-the-sulfa-drugs-transformed-medicine0a94.pdf |archive-date=21 July 2019}}</ref> ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' and ''[[The Morning Post]]'' on 21 December 1943 wrote that he had been saved by penicillin. He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug [[sulphapyridine]], known at the time under the research code M&B 693, discovered and produced by [[May & Baker]] Ltd, [[Dagenham]], Essex – a subsidiary of the French group [[Rhône-Poulenc]]. In a subsequent radio broadcast, Churchill referred to the new drug as "This admirable M&B".<ref name=":1" /><ref>''A History of May & Baker 1834–1984'', Alden Press 1984.{{ISBN?}}</ref>