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...Army's 147th General Hospital, Franklin Roosevelt made a tour of five wards, talking to the wounded, telling them they would soon be home. He stopped beside the bed of a young soldier suffering from a gangrenous lung condition. A tube was carrying penicillin and a potassium permanganate solution to the soldier's veins. "I hope you'll be feeling better soon," the President said. "Then you'll have a chance to come home. We're waiting for you." But the young soldier was so sick he just lay there staring at the ceiling with...
...Howard Walter Florey, thin-lipped, bespectacled, Australian-born half of the famed Florey-Fleming penicillin team, after twelve days at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton was caught by a reporter, ejaculated: "It is not my practice to be interviewed by the press. I'd much rather be let alone...
...returning doctors told Fish & Wildlife Service last week that on their way home they had stopped off at Seattle to arrange for shipment of 10,000,000 units of penicillin to guard the Aleuts against pneumonia next winter...
Future demonstrations have been planned to cover the subjects of "Medical Supply in Combat," "Aviation Medical Examination," "Penicillin Therapy in the Army," and others...
...medical discovery that may turn out to be the greatest since penicillin was reported last week in the conservative Journal of the A.M.A.: Chicago researchers have found a way to make immunizing vaccines by subjecting live germs to ultraviolet light.* Their most important vaccine to date is for infantile paralysis in mice. Superior to any previous polio vaccine, it may mean that the day of infantile paralysis is nearly over...