Physical description

Illustrated book with dustjacket. Book is bound in brown cloth with abbreviated title, author's name and printer's mark embossed in gilt on spine. Dustjacket has title printed in white and green and author's name in white print on a black and white photograph of a man with dark hair, wearing glasses and a white coat (Walter Florey), Abbreviated title (in white) author's name (in green) and printer's mark (in black) are printed on a brown background on the spine. The back of the dust jacket has a black and white photo of Penicillin notatum growing in a petri dish

Inscriptions & markings

At lower right of page i there is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, "This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by " E. McNeilage (handwritten in ink) Previous catalogue number is also handwritten in ink on this label and at top right of this page> This page also has a handwritten inscription ' Elizabeth Ann, always my love dear. John, 1978

Summary

"Rise Up to Life" follows Howard Florey’s career from his university days in Adelaide, through the period of his greatest research projects at Oxford, Cambridge and Sheffield which culminated in his success with penicillin, to the final years of his life when he was the first Australian to be elected President of the Royal Society. But this biography goes beyond exploring with insight and sympathy the life of a great scientist to give the reader a vivid and dramatic picture of the scientific processes that led up to a new discovery and a new era in medicine.