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Through the National Institutes of Health last year, Government scientists spent $30 million to test no fewer than 50,000 potential cancer-fighting drugs. That measures the size of the job in achieving the chemotherapist's dream: an effective cure for the major forms of the disease. Last week the physician who treated President Eisenhower's ileitis, Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania, pulled together and appraised the results...
Died. Dr. George W. Raiziss, 61, famed Russian-born chemotherapist, director of dermatological research at Philadelphia's Abbott Laboratories; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City. Dr. Raiziss developed Metaphen (one of the most potent antiseptics known), did important early research with the sulfa drugs, recently developed Diasone as a promising cure for tuberculosis (TIME...
Credited with the invention of this drug, which some responsible doctors last week were calling the medical discovery of the decade, were Professors Heinrich Horlein and Gerhard Domagk of the German Dye Trust. Dr. Horlein, director of the Trust's pharmaceutical research at Elberfeld, and Dr. Domagk, a chemotherapist, designed Prontosil's complex molecule of dyestuff. After Dye Trust synthetists made it. Dr. Domagk experimented on mice, found that it did not kill them, that it did cure them of streptococcic infections. Other German doctors tried the material on human beings, began to report success in 1935. Last...
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