1951 ad for Penicillin

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

With apologies for the lousy two-part scan.

Comments

[meleth.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish I weren't allergic to penicillin.

[christhawk.livejournal.com]

Good choice of things to mention in the ad. All 4 (penicillin, -mycin antibiotics, vitamins & cortisone) are still being used regularly!

High fever at night..

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

.. broken spine on the landing in the morning.

[pony-rocks.livejournal.com]

Oh, the days when it still worked...

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Did the antibiotics make your kid hyper? No worries. We have a drug for that, too. I have a feeling this ad wasn't directed at parents. Here, give your kid this stuff we brewed in "huge 15,000 gallon steel fermentation tanks."

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

Or in my case, high fever at night, administer penicillin, watch in wonder as I slip into a coma for five days!

So that was the end of my penicillin career.

[mejeep.livejournal.com]

and they're still in Rahway NJ, a huge facility!

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm sure glad "developmental research MEN" were on the job! Lord knows what would have happened if the ladies were involved. They'd probably all start baking cakes or something.

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

That Merck logo looks suspiciously similar to the Bayer logo. Were they owned by the same groups, or did they butt heads over it?