Schering Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/schering/ Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:53:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Recycling Penicillin from Urine in Post-War Germany https://bshm.org.uk/recycling-penicillin-from-urine-in-post-war-germany/ https://bshm.org.uk/recycling-penicillin-from-urine-in-post-war-germany/#respond Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:53:45 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=15419 Limited supplies of penicillin and Allied restrictions on German access to the drug in the immediate aftermath of World War II led to its recovery from the urine of treated patients. Susanne Krejsa MacManus explains. German research on penicillin started only in 1942 and then on a very small scale.[1]  Gerhard Domagk (1895-1964), the German […]

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