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Bloodshed and treachery, in delicate balance, had brought Marquis Don Francisco Pizarro, discoverer and conqueror of Peru, a long way from herding swine under the oaks of Estredemadura.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Generals, Saints & Goblins | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

"Do not think penicillin is a cure-all," said penicillin's discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming on THE MARCH OF TIME last week. "It has an extraordinary effect on many of the common microbes . . . but on others it is quite inactive. The publicity given to penicillin has caused me to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Streptomycin News | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

¶Streptomycin has cleared up many an intestinal and urinary tract infection. The drug's discoverer, Dr. Selman A. Waksman, reports that when used before an abdominal operation it tends to prevent post-operative infections.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Streptomycin News | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

One of the oldest cities of which any record remains was Heliopolis (Greek for "City of the Sun"), prehistoric Egypt's capital and sacred seat of the sun god, Ra. Little is known about this late Stone Age city except that it was destroyed by war about 5000 B.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: After 7,000 Years | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

In the current Journal of Allergy, Drs. Bernhard Zondek (famed co-discoverer of a standard test for pregnancy) and Yehuda M. Bromberg of Jerusalem's Hadassah University Hospital tell how they made hormone skin tests on 165 women, about half of whom were suspected of hormone allergy. Sure enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Auto-Allergy | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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