The wonder drug of 1943 may prove to be penicillin, obscured since its discovery in Britain in 1929, only now getting its thorough sickroom trial. It is made from a mold (TIME, Sept. 15, 1941) by a slow, laborious process. All the penicillin in the U.S. at any one time has never been more than about enough to treat 30 cases.
Experiments have already shown that penicillin attacks certain bacteria more successfully than sulfa drugs do. Unlike sulfa drugs, penicillin's effects are not inhibited by pus and other materials formed in infected wounds. Used in low concentrations in the blood stream,...
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