Penicillin, the wonder drug of 1943, last week made headlines up & down the nation. Newspapers reported a wave of frantic appeals for the drug by blood-poisoning sufferers who suddenly learned that 1) penicillin might save their lives, 2) there was not enough to go around.
The rush began last fortnight when a distraught father phoned the city editor of the New York Journal-American, begged him to help get some penicillin for his baby daughter Patricia, who was dying of a staphylococcus blood infection. The city editor made the most of a journalistic...
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