Penicillin reaches patients

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1979 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (480 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

1. The Washington Daily News — 1941-11-12, page 26

   … to the genus Peni cillium, and the g'erm-killing sub stance it secrets is called penicillin. Letters to the Editor: The briefer your letter, the better its chances of getting …

2. Evening Star — 1942-01-01, page 22

   … killing the disease germs and other germs later. The fungus, which has been named penicillin, will be the moat powerful antiseptic known 1f chemists cair <j find out its composition …

   … . A IB-year-old girl burned her face with a cigarette, and a rash resulted. Penicillin cured the Infection, and it has rid a workman of a carbuncle, a woman of conjunctivitis …

3. Washington Journal — 1942-01-09, page 1

   The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

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   … killing the disease germs and other germs later. The fungus, which has been named penicillin, will be the most powerful antiseptic known, if chem lists can find out its composition …

   … beings. A l9-year-old girl burned her face with a cigarette, and a rash resulted. Penicillin cured the in lection, and it has rid a workman of a carbuncle, a woman of con junctivitis …

4. Washington Journal — 1942-01-09, page 6

   … killing the di sease germs and other germs later. The fungus, which has been named penicillin, will be the most power ful antiseptic known, if chem ists can sind out its composition …

   … beings. A 19-year-old girl burned her face with a cigarette, and a rash resulted. Penicillin cured the in fection, and it has rid a workman of a carbuncle, a woman of con junctivitis …

5. Evening Star — 1942-01-11, page 30

   … as many persons, in and after the First World War, as fighting. Gramicidin and penicillin, two new antiseptics that in preliminary trials surpass anything else of the kind …

   … . Gram icidin was obtained by a new method of cultivating microbes in earth. Penicillin Is from an organism related to the green mold of camembert cheese. New Healing …

6. The Washington Daily News — 1943-01-06, page 22

   … surpass even the sulfa drugs in their conquest over disease germs. Watch particularly penicillin and gramicidin, two of these soil chemicals. From clinical studies now well along …

7. The Washington Daily News — 1943-01-15, page 14

   … increased 100 per cent when the seed lings have been treated with ethylene.* Medicine: “Penicillin, a new drug produced in soil mold, is about 100 per cent as effective as sulfanilamide …

8. The Washington Daily News — 1943-04-15, page 32

   … Blood plasma and sulfa drugs get the credit for this, but the Army is now trying penicillin, an even newer weapon against germs. Penicillin was a British discovery and is made from a mold. Penicillin, it is believed, will prove effective in curing gonorrhea in cases which fail under …

9. Evening Star — 1943-05-12, page 55

   … most potent weapon ogainst bacteria ever found i* now fighting for the Allies. Penicillin, hundreds of times more powerful than the sulfa drugs, has been in the laboratory …

10. Evening Star — 1943-05-14, page 42

    … XA. 5000, j I against bacteria aver found kj is now fighting for tho « Allies. Penicillin, hundreds ? of times more powerful - than the sulfa drugs, has been in the laboratory …

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