Dr Dawson, typical of 1940s MG sufferers, lived 4 1/2 years with the disease : October 16 1940 - April 27 1945

A Canadian study in the late 1930s found that patients who were treated for the auto immune disease Myasthenia Gravis (MG) lived an average of four and a half years.

Its a coincidence, for sure, but a fortuitous one for a dramatist such as myself that four and a half years (October 16 1940 - April 27 1945) is exactly how long Dr Martin Henry Dawson survived his MG --- and exactly how long it took him from beginning his quest of "Natural Penicillin for All" to finally see it become a world wide success ---- achieved despite fierce opposition from both his own body and his own Allied governments.

I have selected twenty seven turning points in that matched journey towards death and destiny, events roughly two months apart, to become the 27 scenes for my libretto in prose about this Earth-changing vision....