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Show Until Synthetic Method Is Devised, Production Of Penicillin Will Remain Slow and Costly 5 v v i x "x w b '"" I 3 A, I ' H Brought doubly into the limelight by frequent dramatic uses of the drug, penicillin has been made available avail-able in cases where the patient would respond to it. Dr. Austin E. Smith, secretary of the council on pharmacy and chemistry of the American Medical association, said. Because of its comparative scarcity. scar-city. Dr. Smith stated, unlimited use of penicillin has not been permitted, per-mitted, and in cases where other drugs, like the sulfonamides for instance, in-stance, are effective, authorities have insisted on employing them instead. in-stead. Until synthetic production of penicillin peni-cillin is developed, its manufacture will continue a costly and cumbersome cumber-some process. At the start of the year, about eight firms were producing pro-ducing quantities of penicillin, and the total was expected to be expanded expand-ed to 20 This tiny sealed vial contains 10,. 000 Florey units ef penicillin. |