Word: penicillins
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...assigned many thousands of C.O.s (including Cinemactor Lew Ayres) to noncombatant service in the Army (Class 1-A-O), 8,426 to Civilian Public Service camps and special service projects (to do "work of national importance under civilian direction"[Class 4-E]), and some 5,000 to prison (including penicillin-research chemist Donald Charles DeVault, who refused to do the work assigned to him in a C.O. camp...
...Navy doctor estimated that 15% of them had been so underfed that they would never reach Japan. Another 15% had tuberculosis. The rest were in varying stages of emaciation, suffering from pellagra, beri beri and scurvy. To treat them, the Japs had no plasma or whole blood, no penicillin, sulfa or synthetic vitamins...
...Alabama's medical school, examined as many as 15,000 blood specimens a day. The city blossomed with placards announcing "free treatment for syphilis." While they were about it, health officials offered voluntary gonorrhea treatments, exhorting the citizenry by posters, newspapers and spot radio announcements, with the promise: "PENICILLIN CURES GONORRHEA IN FOUR HOURS." The U.S. Public Health Service came across with the penicillin...
Doctor of Science: Alexander Fleming, Professor of Bacteriology in the University of London, St. Mary's Medical School; Hunterian Professor and Arriss and Gale Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons: "A bacteriologist of Great Britain whose discovery of penicillin in 1928 was the first step in the working of a modern miracle...
...Penicillin is also effective against syphilis (TIME, Oct. 25, 1943). Standard treatment with arsenic compounds used to take months or years. Penicillin treatment is a matter of weeks...