British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968)

Usage examples of florey.

I had hoped to get him here - a change of air and regimen can work wonders in these cases - but when Mr Florey and I opened his body we found so great a.

I had understood him to be a man of substance - he had a house in Merrion Square - but when Mr Florey and I looked through his effects before sealing them we found nothing whatever, neither money nor letters of credit.

He turned it over and over, arguing against his hopes, but coming at last to the conclusion that if he could make his coat passably respectable - and the dust does seem to be getting it off, or at least disguising it, he said - he would call on Mr Florey at the hospital and talk to him, in a general way, about the naval surgeon's calling.

But surely,' he said, smiling at Mr Florey, 'you are not throwing out a generality about cuckolds?

I believe Apothecaries' Hall sends a chest aboard Florey will know, or any of the surgeons But at all events come aboard directly Come as soon as you like - come tomorrow, say, and we will dine together.

Thus proof of the remarkable antibiotic power of penicillin would have to wait for the work of Florey and his colleagues twelve years later, well after the introduction of sulfanilamide's.