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...consider it as undesirable an employer as Mephistopheles. Now that attitude has completely changed. For their part, as the essential middlemen of the medical revolution, the drugmakers have accepted the fact that they are in business for other people's health. "Medicine is for the patient," says Merck & Co.'s Chairman George W. Merck. "Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits...
...Chairman Merck's own company is not quite the biggest U.S. manufacturer of "ethical" drugs.* Its 1951 sales of $120 million (plus $10 million in Canada) were topped by Parke, Davis & Co.'s $138 million. But Merck is one of the oldest (its roots go back to the Germany of 1668), its main lines are the four new classes of drugs (vitamins, sulfas, antibiotics and hormones), and its products reach every corner of the U.S. and the world...
...producing just what the doctor ordered takes more than miles of pipes and mountains of materials. It also takes the priceless catalysts of knowledge and character. Those ingredients are well compounded in the man who transformed Merck & Co. from a modest company making a conventional line of drugs and other chemicals into a flourishing medical pioneer. He is Merck's Chairman George Wilhelm Herman Emanuel Merck...
...Sign of the Angel. When Friedrich Jacob Merck took over a pharmacy called the Engelapotheke ("Angel Drugstore") in the Hessian town of Darmstadt 284 years ago, chemistry was just emerging from the shadows of alchemy. In 1827, the Merck firm started manufacturing; in the next 40 years it achieved the first commercial production of morphine, codeine and cocaine. By 1891 the company was selling so many of its products in North America that a son of the house, 24-year-old George Merck, was sent over to take a closer look at the market...
Spirit of '76. Like many another drug producer, Pfizer has been completely transformed by antibiotics. The 102-year-old company, founded by German immigrants, was a small but successful chemical producer specializing in making citric acid by fermentation. When, in 1941, the Government asked Pfizer, Merck & Co., and E. R. Squibb to try to mass-produce penicillin, Pfizer was right at home; penicillin could be made only by fermentation. But the process was slow because the mold, which needs air to exist, was being grown only on the surface of a chemical broth at the recovery rate...