The Wonder Drug (Cont.)

In our previous article we discussed the discovery of penicillin and traced its development to 1941, when Heatly and Florey came to America to interest our government and pharmaceutical houses in the commercial production of this “wonder drug”. Perhaps you will recall that penicillin was discovered long before the war (1928) and that a few American scientists had been experimenting with it already in 1935 but, due to low yields and difficulty of extraction little progress was made. When...