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...demand for cortisone, as a treatment if not a cure, is already tremendous. In the DanviUe plant every few days (just how often is a Merck secret), chemical operators pour 1,500 lbs. of glistening white crystalline bile acid ($37,500 worth at quoted prices) into a 1,000-gallon still. In the still are hundreds of gallons of a solvent liquid with which the bile acid goes through its first reaction in its long, tedious process toward cortisone. Within hours this reaction is complete and a precipitant is added, causing Intermediate Compound No. 1 to separate from the solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What the Doctor Ordered | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...microbes (captured on a windowsill in Kalamazoo) perform a dozen complicated chemical processes, the Upjohn Co. has boosted production of cortisone and cut its price by 20%. Neck & neck in the same race, Schering Corp. can now get enough cortisone to treat a patient for three weeks from the bile of only two cattle (it used to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Compound Prescription | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...such naturalness that it gives an immediate illusion of truth-to-life. Much of what he has to say is bitter to the point of savagery; and he is capable of heightening this grimness still further by laying on strokes of humor that seem to come from the bile of a grizzly bear. Only at his worst does he ever sound like a doctrinaire hack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Candido & the Capitalists | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

Scarce and expensive drugs are the potential jackpot payoffs of pharmaceutical chemistry. Right now one of the most valuable is the steroid hormone, cortisone, which sells at wholesale for $23 a gram. Reason: under present commercial methods, it takes the bile from 1,000 tons of cattle to make a month's supply of cortisone for a single arthritis patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cortisone Jackpot? | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

Within a year, says Syntex, it hopes to make as much yam cortisone as is now produced from cattle bile. In three years, when its new $2,000,000 plant is finished, it hopes to supply enough cortisone for the entire U.S. demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cortisone Jackpot? | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

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