Word: pfizer
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Florey ended on the discouraging, realistic note that "penicillin is as yet available in only the smallest quantities." The A.M.A. gave a similar warning last week to U.S. doctors: though Merck & Co., E. R. Squibb & Sons, Charles Pfizer & Co and the Lederle Laboratories are all making penicillin, "in no instance has production advanced beyond the pilot-plant stage," and supplies for civilian use will be "exceedingly limited." The Army recently tried penicillin on a few veterans from the Pacific suffering from compound fractures, osteomyelitis and wound infections. First results were so good that the Medical Corps will soon extend trials...