Medicine 1944: 20th Century Seer, Dr. Alexander Fleming : Penicillin

20th Century Seer

Medical news last week vied with news of the days before an invasion. Under the aspect of eternity, the medical news might even be more important than the military. The War Production Board announced that the wonder drug penicillin, for three years practically a monopoly of the Army & Navy, was now being manufactured in such quantity that it can be issued to civilians. Some 1,000 hospitals will be allowed to buy generous monthly quotas for distribution to patients and other hospitals.*

For impatient sufferers (many of them dying), the...

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