PENCILLIN TREATMENT
NEW DRUG USED FOR WOUNDS Rec. noon. LONDON, Dec. 10. Treatment with the new drug pencillin' is estimated to have saved three to six weeks in hospital for men who were treated in North Africa for soft tissue wounds, states a preliminary report to the War Office, which is reviewed in the British Medical Journal.
One of the doctors, who treated early casualties from Sicily, said that pencillin had practically overcome the obstacles of infection.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 294, 11 December 1943, Page 5
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