Experiment Eleven (2012)
“Sales of penicillin and streptomycin were booming, but with penicillin production still four times that of streptomycin. The world’s largest penicillin maker, Chas. Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn, New York, had posted a ten-million-dollar profit on 1946 sales of about forty-three million dollars. At the end of 1946, the U.S. government lifted controls on streptomycin distribution. Under government control three quarters of streptomycin production had gone to the armed forces, the Public Health Servic...e, and the Veterans Administration. Clinical tests had produced positive results in both miliary tuberculosis, where the germs ride the bloodstream and lodge in body organs, and tubercular meningitis, where the germs attack the brain and spinal cord. The other quarter had gone to the National Research Council, which had carried out separate trials on one thousand patients with bacterial infections. The council’s official report concluded that streptomycin could definitely arrest tuberculosis, but it would not necessarily eradicate the disease.MoreLess
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