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 File — Box: 4, Folder: 7

Old Reports on Antibiotics and Streptomycin,, 1942-1970

Dates

  • 1942-1970

Scope and Contents

There are restricted minutes of meetings between 1942 and 1946 of the National Research Council Committee on Medical Research and the Committee on Chemotherapeutics and Other Agents; FDA report on Tentative Minimum Specifications for Streptomycin-Standards of Identity, Strength, Quality and Purity, 1946; paper on tuberculosis delivered by Dr. J. Wilson, 1954; reprint from Science magazine of March 29, 1957 of an article by SAW on the effect of scientific isolationism on the development of antibiotics; a list of antibiotics* which were isolated by SAW and his associates from 1940 to 1960; and a letter to The New York Times disputing their statement that the research was supported by the U.S. government, but attributing the funding instead to The Lasker Foundation, The New York Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, and Merck & Co., Inc.

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

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