Word: merck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight Freshmen played with last year's aggregation and are expected to see action again this fall McDonald also has enthusiastic words for two returning veterans, 1942 Freshman fullback Bob Purinton, whom the coach calls "an outstanding player," and Merck, captain of the 1939 Freshman team...
...last week the rumors were well confirmed. Within a few years, ventured Dr. Hans Molitor, penicillin and streptomycin may lose much of their power to cure some of the most prevalent diseases. No alarmist, Dr. Molitor should know what he is talking about: as director of the Merck Institute, he was a pioneer in the development of antibiotics...
Death by Bottle. These were CWS's everyday jobs. It was in another phase of its work that CWS explored a nightmare region: bacterial war. In a report to the War Department prepared by Special -Consultant George W. Merck, CWS was carefully inexplicit. CWS had developed improved laboratory techniques for the production and study of microorganisms, methods for detecting and controlling disease, protective clothing and equipment. But there was evidence that the danger of a bacteria-charged attack was no fantasy, that the U.S. was ready to thwart any enemy efforts*-and retaliate in kind...
...drug was quietly announced two years ago by Drs. Selman Abraham Waksman and Harold Boyd Woodruff of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers, only its test-tube performance was known. The present excitement comes from mouse experiments last summer by research workers at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, at Rahway, N.J. (the drug has not yet been tried on people). The evidence...
...Florey ended on the discouraging, realistic note that "penicillin is as yet available in only the smallest quantities." The A.M.A. gave a similar warning last week to U.S. doctors: though Merck & Co., E. R. Squibb & Sons, Charles Pfizer & Co and the Lederle Laboratories are all making penicillin, "in no instance has production advanced beyond the pilot-plant stage," and supplies for civilian use will be "exceedingly limited." The Army recently tried penicillin on a few veterans from the Pacific suffering from compound fractures, osteomyelitis and wound infections. First results were so good that the Medical Corps will soon extend trials...