Word: penicillins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Antibiotics. After the sulfas came the antibiotics. No drug was ever launched with more drama than the first and greatest of these-penicillin. As the story is usually told in the drug trade, Merck & Co. missed out on penicillin in the early stages because it concentrated too hard on trying to find a way to synthesize it and got left behind. George Merck explains it differently: "The Government asked us to put up a plant, but insisted that Merck apply for Government money to finance it. I said 'No, that would make it look as if we were lobbying...
Among the 100 who have been cover subjects: Lavrenty P. Beria, head of Russia's secret police; British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook; Scientist Irving Langmuir; Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin ; Pope Pius XII ; Philosopher Albert Schweitzer; Poet T. S. Eliot. Among those who have not : Indian Industrialist J. R. D. Tata; Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg; Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs; Argentine Physiologist Bernardo A. Houssay; blind Egyptian Scholar Taha Hussein...
...Penicillin, the first of the antibiotic wonder drugs, is now a drug on the market. In the past few months, the manufacturer's price has been cut in half to less than 2? per 100,000 units in bulk. The case of penicillin was a fine example of how a free and competitive market can be a wonder drug of its own, by forcing prices down and passing on savings to the consumer...
...Government-appointed president and former corporation lawyer, chemical and drug sales steadily climbed from $2.8 million in 1942 to last year's $15.4 million. Earnings per share rose from 43? to $3.12. Schering was the second company to put cortisone on the market, has marketed new sulfa and penicillin products, holds a prominent place in the antihistamine field, has introduced several important new drugs, including "Dormison" (for insomnia), and "Prantal" (for peptic ulcers...
...mold seemed to be destroying the bacteria. "That was very unusual. Instead of casting out the contaminated culture with appropriate language, I made some investigations. The more I investigated, the more interesting it became. I found that the mold made a powerful and nonpoisonous antiseptic. I christened it penicillin...