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Benjamin Minge Duggar, discoverer of aureomycin D.Sc...
Gold Dust. In American Cyanamid Co.'s Lederle Laboratories at Pearl River, N.Y. another Streptomyces was found to secrete a gold-colored, germ-killing substance. Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar, the discoverer, called this antibiotic aureomycin. First used on human patients at New York's Harlem Hospital by Dr. Louis T. Wright, the "gold dust" worked wonders for victims of lymphogranuloma. Like Chloromycetin, it deals with many of the rickettsias. In treating brucellosis (undulant fever), aureomycin is likely to replace the streptomycin-sulfadiazine combination much used at present...
...Benjamin Minge Duggar made the greatest discovery of his career. For two years he and his associates at Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, N.Y. had been studying bits of soil from all parts of the U.S. Dr. Duggar, who retired in 1943 as professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin, was looking for a new antibiotic to place beside the two best known, penicillin and streptomycin...
After isolating 3,400 strains from 600 samples of soil, Dr. Duggar found one in 1945 that looked promising. Because it was a golden yellow color, it was called aureomycin. More than two years of careful testing in the laboratory followed. About a year ago, aureomycin was first used to treat human beings. Results were good. By last week aureomycin had taken its place as a standard medicine...
This week Lederle doctors report claims of success in treating whooping cough and tularemia (rabbit fever). Dr. Duggar is still busy at the work he loves. He has some 200 new samples of soil, is looking for still another antibiotic...