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    • Charming but Fanciful: The Fleming-Churchill Myth
      • In a chapter entitled “The Power of Kindness,” Churchill is saved from drowning in a Scottish lake by Alexander Fleming himself. A few years later Churchill telephones Alex to say that his parents, in gratitude, will sponsor Alex’s medical school education.
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  2. Sep 25, 2018 · The story that Alexander Fleming (or Alex and his father Hugh) twice saved Churchill’s life, charming as it may be, is certainly fiction. This persistent Churchill legend dates back to World War II. It is still found today on otherwise serious websites, despite abundant evidence against it.

  3. 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.

  4. Aug 29, 2008 · Alex graduates with honors and in 1928 discovers that certain bacteria cannot grow in certain vegetable molds. In 1943 when Churchill becomes ill in the Near East, Alex’s invention, penicillin, is flown out to effect his cure. Thus once again Alexander Fleming saves the life of Winston Churchill.

  5. Jan 11, 2020 · It is not true that Alexander Fleming saved Churchill twice: from drowning as a boy, and, with penicillin, from pneumonia in 1943.

  6. Oct 5, 2013 · Alex graduates with honours and in 1928 discovers that certain bacteria cannot grow in certain vegetable molds. In 1943 when Churchill becomes ill in the Near East, Alex’s invention, penicillin, is flown out to effect his cure. Thus once again Alexander Fleming saves the life of Winston Churchill.

  7. 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.

  8. Mar 17, 2015 · The Truth: According to the Winston Churchill center in Washington, D.C., this is a myth. There is no evidence these events ever happened. Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, says there’s no record of Churchill nearly drowning or of his father paying for Fleming’s education.

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