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...Penicillin seems to have done it again. A few cells of a certain kind of mouse cancer growing in a test tube have succumbed to the fabulous drug. The penicillin damaged or killed cancer cells, left normal cells unharmed. It took three times the cancer-killing dose of penicillin to hurt the normal cells. When penicillin-treated cancer cells were transplanted to cancer-susceptible rats, none got cancer. Untreated cells gave cancer to all of them...
...Michigan for a Ph.D. when he joined the Army in 1942. His experiment was done on a 45-day furlough at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. Says Corporal Cornman in this week's Science: "'[These studies] have revealed a selective lethal effect of penicillin upon rat and mouse sarcoma cells, of which a full account will be published later...
Lest his report make cancer sufferers prematurely hopeful, Drs. Margaret Reed Lewis and Warren Harmon Lewis (husband & wife), who used to supervise Corporal Cornman's experiments at the Institute, said last week that much work must still be done before anyone can be sure whether or not penicillin can fight cancers growing in animals or people. Dr. Francis Carter Wood, retired head of the cancer research at Columbia University, added the warning that Cornman's experiment applies only to a special type of mouse tumor, may not apply to any other...
...this work on weapons proceeds under the supervision of President Conant. Besides this work, the OSRD is busy with advanced problems of military medicine, and is attempting to solve such problems as mass production of penicillin, development and testing of substances which will repel sharks, barracuda, and jelly fish, treatment of gas casualties, and development of methods to make drinkable water out of sea water...
...Bulletin is a little larger than pocket-size, starts with news and comment (e.g., new uses for penicillin, announcement of a new plastic hospital tray or a course in dentistry, statistics on war dogs, report of an epidemic from ham, a note on horses' eyes). It goes on to special articles on standard procedures (e.g., a series on malaria) and original articles from army doctors everywhere. The brisk little Bulletin sells for $2 a year...