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Safely on the ground, the pilot went back for a look at his dead horse. Canastos was not dead, just subdued. In Panama last week, after shots of penicillin, Canastos was eating well and catching up on his rest. The veterinarian planned to remove the slugs, thought Canastos would run again. In Lima, horse fans remembered that Canastos always was a stayer...
...graduate of M.I.T., Woodward is the co-discoverer of synthetic quinine. For the duration, he also worked on the government's penicillin project. He is continuing his studies of the synthesis of materials here...
...work on dogs*: he could no more learn to open the human chest and remove a lung by reading a textbook than a Rubinstein could become a pianist without touching a keyboard. Millions of men & women now living would have died, or suffered immeasurably more, if insulin and penicillin had not been tested and retested on animals. With some drugs, each batch must be so tested before it can be sold...
Finally, there were the technical improvements in antibiotics and transfusions. Penicillin, scarce and little understood in World War II, was available in Korea in carload lots, in suspensions which would stay in the system for many life-saving hours. Also on hand were aureomycin, Chloromycetin and Terramycin, often effective where penicillin fails. There was also whole blood, which the Army doctors used more & more in preference to plasma. The shipping and preservation were so efficient (it must be used within 21 days) that Dr. Meiling reported proudly : "Not one unit was lost during September by being outdated...
...reappraisal of the therapeutic use of penicillin and a thorough rationalization of every dose-and amount-should be undertaken," said Captain Oilman. "We must abandon the thought current in some quarters that this antibiotic is a cure-all or that its prophylactic use is justified. Not only is the routine use before all operations, dental as well as surgical, unsound, but the facility with which it is administered for almost every complaint . . . needs to be halted...