Show penicillin can be given by mouth in new method wonder drug suspended in cottonseed oil and Is put into gelatin capsules it is now possible to administer penicillin in capsules through the mouth instead of the hylod hypodermic injection me method thod this new technique is considered an important forward step in medicine since there are several objections to the present practice of injecting the miracle drug dr raymond L libby a research specialist in the lederle laboratories of the american chani roid corporation developed the the new method after many months of study and experimentation the great difficulty to be overcome was that the stomach acids destroyed power before it could be absorbed in the blood tablets of the drug coated with various materials designed to dissolve after the tablet reached the small intestine te were tried but discarded because the breaking up point could not be accurately predetermined dr libby finally solved the problem by suspending the penicillin in cottonseed oil which is digestible he then put the mixture in gelatine capsules this preparation is known as G oral when the geI gelatine atine capsule dissolves it frees the oil which passes into the small intestine and is digested the penicillin is then rapidly absorbed and taken into the blood stream its marvelously effective action soon follows at the point of infection the list of dangerous infectious conditions that are cleared up by penicillin continues to increase pneumonia meningitis abscesses carbuncles carbuncled carb uncles clotting of blood in the sinuses of the brain pus collections in the chest and various s wound in M 0 v 3 4 4 1 71 1 14 1 1 1 W I 1 11 a I 1 d V T X K 1 I fa 4 ezi Z W Z f dr raymond L libby who developed the oral method of penicillin cillin is shown at work in the research department of lederle inc factions all yield to penicillin it is also highly effective in childbirth fever peritonitis gas gangrene gonorrhea and anthrax among many others although still aill expensive because difficult to make penicillin is becoming more plentiful and the time will come when the drug will be available for all real needs A new for form M called penicillin X is being developed at the cederic laboratories this is to be much stronger than the present form which is a mixture of three penicillin types |