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Old Wives' Remedy Leads Scientists To Wonder Drugs
A century old home remedy sparked interest in antibiotics led by Dr Benjamin M Duggar of Lederle Laboratories. Penicillin streptomycin aureomycin and aureomycin emerged, with aureomycin opening treatment for rickettsial diseases and promising uses in measles mumps whooping cough and other infections.
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S. Burton Heath
NER Service
Pei River
N. Y
Europe
Lederle Laboratories
Pearl River
Lederele
Benjamin M. Duggar
Duggar
University of Wisconsin
Harlem
Lederle