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Nixon checked into Walter Reed's presidential suite (carefully paying the $34-a-day rental out of his own pocket) for a fortnight of treatment. His left leg was put in traction to keep the knee immobilized, and he was soon responding to injections of penicillin and erythromycin...
...tiny, four-week-old infant lay limply on its bed in a British hospital Tests of blood and pus samples, drawn from an inflamed abscess on the child's right hip, produced a chilling diagnosis: Staphylococcus aureus, of the dreaded "hospital type,"* which is resistant to penicillin and most antibiotics. With little hope of success, physicians administered massive doses of penicillin and streptomycin. Neither worked, and the child hovered near death. Finally, doctors tried an experimental drug, one so new that it still had no name, bore only a laboratory code number: BRL 1241. The dramatic result: after five...
...questions, "Is it my fault? What did I do wrong?" In most cases, nothing. The one clear exception to the rule of maternal innocence is syphilis. Its spirochetes do not attack the fetus until relatively late in its development. If syphilis is diagnosed early in pregnancy, intensive treatment with penicillin can give the mother's unborn child almost sure protection...
Ever since the antibiotic era dawned, the miracle drugs made from molds have had no more ardent champion than a tough-looking, hard-working civil servant named Henry Welch. Starting with a 1943 crash project to develop standards for penicillin and methods of testing its purity and potency, he advanced to become undisputed czar of the industry. So bright did Welch's star shine that his bosses in the Food and Drug Administration boosted him from chief of the Antibiotics Division, at $14,450 a year, to the supergrade rank of director...
...graduate of Brown University (Ph.B. '25), with a Ph.D. in bacteriology at Western Reserve University's School of Medicine, Welch joined FDA in 1938. During World War II, as head of FDA's microanalytic division, he built a small pilot plant to grow his own penicillin, soon had the required standards and tests worked out. He was in on the ground floor when other antibiotics came along...