Search results
Sep 25, 2018 · Alexander Fleming (or his father) did not save Churchill's life twice, or even once. Tracking the origins of a persistent Churchillian myth.
Aug 9, 1999 · The father of Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, saved a young Winston Churchill from drowning; in gratitude Churchill's father paid for Fleming's education. Rating:...
People also ask
How did Alexander Fleming save Winston Churchill?
Who saved Winston Churchill from drowning?
Was Hugh Fleming able to save a drowning Churchill?
What saved Alexander Fleming?
Aug 29, 2008 · According to Keeney, Churchill is saved from drowning in a Scottish lake by a farm boy named Alex. A few years later Churchill telephones Alex to say that his parents, in gratitude, will sponsor Alex’s otherwise unaffordable medical school education.
Sep 15, 2021 · Join us daily as Churchill Downs' expert analysts handicap the day's racecard.
- 41 sec
- 66.8K
- Churchill Downs
May 7, 2015 · The fable that Sir Alexander Fleming saved Churchill from drowning as a boy and from pneumonia many years later by his discovery of penicillin had quite a run on the Internet a year or so ago, and the question still comes up occasionally.
Nor did he save Winston Churchill himself during World War II. Churchill was saved by Lord Moran , using sulphonamides , since he had no experience with penicillin, when Churchill fell ill in Carthage in Tunisia in 1943.
According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Brown (2004), Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia described this as "a wondrous fable." Nor did he save Winston Churchill himself during World War II.
