Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although penicillin is still Pfizer's main product (it turns out over one-third of the U.S. output), it is also making the latest wonder drug, streptomycin. But Pfizer feels that streptomycin has a "clouded future," as yet has no plans for mass production. When it gets the new Groton plant in operation, Pfizer expects to double production of its other products...
...arbitrarily named G, F, X, K); 2) type K is virtually useless because it is destroyed within the body so fast (in less than an hour) that it can't get set for a knockout punch at the germs. In trying to produce a purer form of penicillin, drug companies had inadvertently made a product with high K content. (Commercial penicillin is a mixture of two to four types...
...molecular structure of the mold extract had been virtually solved, chemists were still unable to synthesize it. The discovery of four types hinted that there might be more. Recent research indicated that the very impurities which manufacturers had striven to eliminate might be responsible for some of the drug's efficacy. Why, no one knows. Could penicillin ultimately be broken into its component parts-each a remedy for a specific infection? Again, no one knows...
...cure for relapsing malaria (which plagues almost half the world's population). Its name: SN 13,276. Last week in Atlantic City, Squibb Institute's Dr. James A. Shannon released some promising facts about this newest member of the eight-aminoquinoline group (to which belongs Plasmochin, antimalarial drug developed by German scientists in 1926, later discarded as ineffective and too toxic...
...drug is so powerful that a two-week course of treatments cures the disease permanently, thus making possible coordinated, community-wide drives to stamp out malaria...