Word: penicillins
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...your splendid article on Dr. Alexander Fleming and penicillin you neglected to mention the grandmothers who used that remedy constantly in the early days when doctors were not an everyday luxury. I remember, when I was a very little girl and grandmother stayed at our house, how she would sort of guiltily and secretly sneak away a piece of bread when no one was looking, add it to her crock of penicillin (it was not known by that name then). She kept up her laboratory in that crock, so there was a remedy for every emergency. Grandmas were wonderful doctors...
What had so outraged Mr. Cremin was something he had learned from our cover story on Dr. Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin-the news that 63-year-old Dr. Fleming had received not a penny for his momentous achievement. Mr. Cremin decided to do something about it - enclosed with his letter a $1 ,000 check to Dr. Fleming's order-asked TIME to forward it. TIME did-and added our own check for a second...
This whole episode set us wondering about TIME'S earlier coverage of penicillin. We knew it had been considerable. But what we did not realize, until we started digging, was that so far as we can discover TIME was the first periodical, lay or scientific, daily, weekly, or monthly, to bring the U.S. public news of penicillin's success on human patients...
...Alexander Fleming, inventor of penicillin, I bequeath $1,000, just to show that the great painkillers of humanity have a few friends with hearts that beat for them...
Pursers are taught how to bandage, administer laxatives, penicillin, sulfa drugs, morphine, plasma. They learn to make chest X rays and Wassermann tests, to immunize against typhus, tetanus, typhoid, smallpox. They get a smattering of psychology, more than a smattering of ship sanitation...