In More Foreign Parts

Abstract

At the completion of his postgraduate research years, MacLeod had submitted his doctoral thesis, which had earned him an appointment as consultant at a teaching hospital. He had arranged to have some holiday before taking up his post and starting the next phase of his career, which would take him to sixty-five years old, if he was lucky, when he was likely to be deaf, even more senseless and bald. The holiday consisted of a trip to New Orleans to meet an expert who had led studies in his own research field, a Nobel laureate called Andrew Schally.