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According to evidence in last week's Lancet, the new drug vivicillin (TIME, May 22) is not a good substitute for penicillin. The evidence (from a British military hospital): twelve cases of leg ulcers, carbuncles, boils, colitis, bacterial endocarditis, gonorrhea, septicemia which vivicillin failed to cure...
...took up the subject-almost a year before even the New York Times mentioned it. After that other publications pricked up their ears, and scattered reports on the new drug began to appear. Meanwhile, by the end of 1943, TIME had printed no less than six separate stories on penicillin...
Maybe TIME'S Medicine department will never again have the opportunity of being the first to present a piece of news of such towering significance as the story of penicillin. But that will not stop TIME'S Medicine staff from its quiet and patient search, week in, week out, for the best in fact and presentation to make the whole world's medical news make sense for the layman...
...union took peculiar pride in the fact that its strike was "legal." Youthful (26) Chester Joseph Adamczyck put up posters showing that his 1,900 strikers at Parke, Davis & Co.'s two Detroit plants had complied with the Smith-Connally Act.* But their action halted production of penicillin and blood plasma...
...such cases, they claimed, come up every year without getting into print. It would take several quarts of the improperly distilled water to give a man a fever; the "undissolved particles" were material which had come off the ampoule glass; the mold was probably Penicillium notatum. (Winthrop makes penicillin.) Unfortunately for the company, distilled water is not supposed to contain anything but water, not even gratuitous penicillin...