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Then, in the mid-1930s, came the sulfa drugs and a revival of interest in germ-killing chemicals. An Oxford research team composed of Pathologist (now Sir) Howard Florey and Chemist Ernst Chain dug up Fleming's moldy paper and did the tests all over again. By 1941 they got enough penicillin to prolong the lives of two patients. World War II had come to Europe and was threatening the U.S.: men, money and materials were lavished on the perfection and manufacture of penicillin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The First Was the Best | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...stand, slight, white-haired Fleming made it plain he considered the recordings "just a bunch of hogwash," but had "cooperated" in return for Red favors-"dog meat for a meal or a couple of sulfa pills." He had told his fellow prisoners: "I cannot tell you to resist; it's up to you. Let your conscience be your guide." Personally, he said, he cared only about survival for his men and himself. "I decided," said Colonel Fleming, "that the most futile thing in the world was a dead prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Drawing the Line | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...overall record of American prisoners in Korea showed that resistance to Red demands was neither futile nor lethal; defiant captives usually fared as well as abject collaborators. Last week the court of eleven officers evidently decided that-in the absence of dire and direct physical duress-dog meat, sulfa pills or any other material benefits were not reason enough for Fleming's conduct. The verdict: guilty of collaboration. The sentence: dishonorable dismissal, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Drawing the Line | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...Huge C124 Globemasters with tons of medicines, food and clothing (one ton of sulfa drugs, 10,000 hypodermic needles, 4½ tons of woolen blankets) took off for Pakistan from U.S. Air Force bases in Japan, West Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Logistics of Mercy | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Experimenting with animals, Sloan-Kettering researchers set out five years ago to find a chemical compound that would selectively attack types of cancer in the way that sulfa drugs attack streptococci or penicillin controls staphylococci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gain? | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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