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Based on New York City records (considered typical of U.S. cities), the chart shows the general trend of changes in death rates, by diseases, since 1930. Thanks to universal vaccination, sulfa drugs, penicillin, etc., the mortality from most germ diseases is dropping toward the vanishing point (diphtheria deaths, for example, dropped from a yearly average of 1,290 in 1910-19 to seven in 1944). But deaths from degenerative diseases have risen sharply, and are still rising...
Drug on the Market. In Laredo, Tex., at the Mexican border, U.S. customs in spectors seized their first penicillin smuggler...
...isolated over 200,000 varieties. Useful microbes may turn up anywhere-in the air, on the water, on forest leaf mold, in city garbage cans. A potent industrial bacillus was discovered in the intestines of a grasshopper. The best strain of the mold Penicillium notatum, which makes life-saving penicillin, was first noticed on a cantaloupe rind...
Biological Engineering. Leaders in the development of this field have been technicians of such firms as Brooklyn's Charles Pfizer & Co., one of the oldest of the fermentation chemical makers and a big producer of penicillin. They have devised techniques that smack less of a factory than of the contagion ward of a hospital...
...matter how it was taken, penicillin promptly turned up in the blood. When unprotected penicillin was given to twelve pneumonia patients, they got well just as fast as they would have on injections. Only hitch: dosage must be five times the amount required when the drug is administered by injection. But WPB announced last week that there will soon be plenty of penicillin for everybody...