Advances in the Field of Pharmaceuticals and Medicinals
Theodore G. Klumpp, Justus B. Rice · Chemical & Engineering News · 1945
Probably when the war is over astonishing information will be revealed rendering much of present therapeutics obsolete... Tragic interruption of long-range research programs offsets small stimulus war apparently gives to science... Developmens in antibiotics, chemotherapy, blood plasma, anasthetics, entiprasitics, and insecticides are reviewed. THE year 1944 has been a fruitful one from the standpoint of the development of new remedial agents and the practical application of previously acquired knowledge to the treatment of disease. The demands of a nation at war have forced the attention of medical research on special problems directly related to the welfare of the armed forces and a civilian population subjected to unfamiliar stresses. Never before has the research potential of our country been so intensively directed into the narrow channels leading to the solution of immediate practical problems such as the large-scale production of urgently needed medicines, the development of new agents and methods of treatment, and the modification of ...