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Just when the sulfa drugs, penicillin and the other antibiotics seemed to be sweeping most of the bacterial diseases before them, a dark thunderhead of rumor appeared on the horizon-the germs were rallying and fighting back. All over the U.S., bacteriologists studied the phenomenon, and by 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hardier Germs | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...French accent and gestures. He came to the U.S. in 1924, at Rutgers completed the training he began in Paris. The TB culture may or may not be his greatest achievement: his discovery (in 1937) of gramicidin, first of the germ-killing mold extracts, led to the development of penicillin. His latest find, he hopes, will lure young doctors into TB research, hitherto shunned because "the chances of finding something have been practically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress Report, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...Hinshaw's great fear: that thousands of TB victims will beg for treatment at once, that thousands more will postpone urgently needed therapy in the expectation that streptomycin will cure them day after tomorrow. It will not-for the drug, a distant relative of penicillin, is exceedingly scarce (cost: $24 to $50 a patient a day), and the results, however promising, do not yet warrant its widespread use. Dr. Hinshaw's great hope: that a better, cheaper drug will soon appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress Report, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Keefer brought doctors up to date on the drug. Said he: "The primary interest. . . is to determine its effectiveness and toxicity in certain infections which are not susceptible to treatment with sulfonamides, penicillin and other therapeutic agents. . . . Much remains to be learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Report on Streptomycin | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Penicillin Grows in Brooklyn | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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