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...Alexander Fleming, penicillin's discoverer, presented Pope Pius with a plate for cultivating mold to be used in re searches. In return he received this year's Pontifical Medal (picturing the Good Samaritan), and was eulogized as "a geat benefactor of mankind...
...mild upswing among servicemen began early in 1944 because: 1) the discovery of penicillin as a VD cure made men careless about prophylaxis, ready to rush to service doctors for quick treatment: 2) the services stopped docking pay for days lost during venereal treatment, and as a result many hidden cases were revealed. The letdown of victory has merely speeded the trend. But while case rates go up. days lost from duty go down. In 1939 an average Army VD case lost 42 days. In 1945 he loses five days or less; 90% of gonorrhea cases, are fixed...
...operations, many new instruments to perform them with. Mortality in operations for removal of the prostate gland was 20% when he began. His record in 3,000 operations: 3%. He was famed for: 1) his part in developing Mercurochrome as a bloodstream disinfectant (now superseded by sulfa drugs and penicillin); 2) a radical operation for cancer of the prostate; 3) a method of removing the prostate through the urinary outlet; 4) operations which made many a pseudohermaphrodite nearly normal sexually; 5) the Young punch, an instrument to cut through bladder obstructions...
Private industrial research, President Conant claims, tends to keep by-products of the process used in reaching the "chosen target" to a minimum. Under such methods, there is little time, he indicates, to follow up the side-tracks which unexpectedly develop into such discoveries as penicillin...
...Grateful for their new bonanza, drug companies last week gave Penicillin Discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming a ?20,000 research fund to be used by his St. Mary's Hospital laboratory as he sees...