Word: cornman
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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These remarkable results were obtained by a man who is not a doctor. He is Corporal Ivor Cornman, 28, who was studying at the University of Michigan for a Ph.D. when he joined the Army in 1942. His experiment was done on a 45-day furlough at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. Says Corporal Cornman in this week's Science: "'[These studies] have revealed a selective lethal effect of penicillin upon rat and mouse sarcoma cells, of which a full account will be published later...
Lest his report make cancer sufferers prematurely hopeful, Drs. Margaret Reed Lewis and Warren Harmon Lewis (husband & wife), who used to supervise Corporal Cornman's experiments at the Institute, said last week that much work must still be done before anyone can be sure whether or not penicillin can fight cancers growing in animals or people. Dr. Francis Carter Wood, retired head of the cancer research at Columbia University, added the warning that Cornman's experiment applies only to a special type of mouse tumor, may not apply to any other...