Age of promise. (1956)

there are some things about growing up that never changed boyhood for instance is as it has always been an awful time to be sick it's hard for a boy to retreat from the world outside his bedroom and confine himself to his sick bed he gets restless and restlessness is one boy hoods enduring months but some things like the games uh boys do change and change enormously they change just as the visions of boyhood change the challenging horizons but lied just a hit and for the boy who lives today those horizons are exciting envy and as always he'll saracens do exist and they may be crossed sooner than we think this is an age that men of the future looking back will calm the age of promise for the Restless mind of man is open and every vision has validity spectacular frontiers lie waiting in the fabulous worlds beyond the telescope and in the mysterious world that lives beneath the microscope most challenging of all his medicine was course has been changed by scientists like Louie pastor Paul Ehrlich father of chemotherapy Alexander Fleming discoverer of penicillin today the medical revolution they've generated has advanced so far above even atomic energy the most incredible of our accomplishments is now enlisted in medicine search for longer healthier life at the research laboratories operated by Charles Pfizer the company atomic energy becomes a laboratory tool in the quest for greater control over disease after years of study Pfizer scientists now are able to use atomic materials to radio activate one of modern medicines most successful drugs the antibiotic terramycin science is well aware of the spectacular disease-fighting power of antibiotics like Tara myosin but precisely how these drugs work in the body is still a scientific mystery now with the help of radioactive substances which trace the drugs path and action through the body science can begin to unravel the mystery it is an area of research which may eventually bring about medical achievements surpassing even the accomplishments recorded thus far in the era of antibiotics the story of this great adventure begins with the earth itself who soiled teens with a strange microbial water soil specimens from every part of the world were shipped to the Brooklyn laboratories of Pfizer to be studied and carefully tested once it was learned that under the right conditions science could actually harnessed the microbes in the soil and convert their bacterial fighting ability into drugs that would act against disease in map more than 100,000 samples of soil were scientifically searched for life-saving organisms by teams of highly specialized scientists over months of tedious effort each likely mold revealed in the soil samples was grown under the most precise scientific conditions finally an organism which showed astounding effects against many diseases was isolated in the laboratory a microbe which produces terramycin this discovery was a landmark seldom equal in importance in the entire history of mess today terramycin is writing its own chapter in that history a chapter based on fermentation chemistry the terramycin organism has grown in deep fermentation tanks with bubbling air and the proper food penicillin the first great antibiotic was originally grown in milk bottle night flats the ability to produce Terra myosin in these giant tanks is a tribute to modern chemical technology working in a unique partnership with medicine the substance which kills germs the antibiotic itself is harvested from the chemical broth a long complex processes involved before the antibiotic use isolated purified and crystallized here in crude form is the substance from which terramycin come controlled fermentation chemistry and the scientists who've developed it solved the problem of mass production of antibiotics in quantities large enough to treat millions of patients throughout the world step by step these processes bring terramycin to its final state stable pure crystals ready to be prepared in various dosage forms specially developed techniques are used for packaging antibiotics sterile rooms have sterile air free of bacteria and germs killing lacks an illustration of the care taken by the pharmaceutical industry to maintain the highest standards in producing drugs for physician and patients at the end of the production line of the products themselves the life-saving dosages of tara misu each batch made uniformly pure and uniformly fulton through a system of elaborate and rigid controls but in a very real sense this is not the end of the beginning of the line which friends terramycin into the medical centers of the world where it is an indispensable weapon in routing man's yoga's pneumonias dysentery is diphtheria undulant fever of typhus more than 100 diseases which once were major killers and the scourge of components can be cured with this powerful drug terramycin another antibiotic savvy in less than a decade completely changed the course of medicine from the world's great hospitals two sec rules were often enough today the most severe effect of many childhood illnesses is the inactivity the boys find so hard to take rather than the death or complications or even the extended convalescence the same illnesses would have caused 20 years ago so completely science on the side of childhood that it has even pleasanton flavored medicine like terramycin and the family doctor writing out his prescription has a number of palatable dosage forms at his command with the discovery of the effectiveness of antibiotics against human disease in the subsequent knowledge that they could be employed against disease in animals mixed with the feed of cattle and other farm animals Tara myosin is proving itself effective in keeping them healthy and free of diseases that once four major bond disasters it has extended into areas beyond disease in animal feed it promotes growth covariance y and consequently reach market size faster and unless feed and the effect on the nation's farm economy has been spectacular the comparison between these two chickens tells the story terramycin in combination with another antibiotic a combination called a grimacing can control bacterial blighting diseases which attacked fruit trees and vegetable plants diseases which once destroyed tens of millions of dollars worth of farm products keek here today terramycin is even used to fight bacterial spoilage in leafy vegetables and other foods this is the story of terramycin our lives today and in these Pfizer laboratories that story is being extended what move discoveries were part of the research into the radioactive antibiotics can only be guessed there are many possibilities some of them ambitious but all of them them or behind these experiments stands a history of technical logical to medical accomplishment which itself would once have seemed unreal the history of Terra mass because of the weapons of modern medicine lives who lived today that once might never have been saved diseases are controlled which yesterday took an appalling told frontiers of health and well-being not even dreamed of a hundred years ago have already been suppressed these are parts of the heritage of boys who live today and part of their right to dream whatever dreams they were when the impossible becomes the real with the consistency we have seen in our lifetimes no vote can really be called extravagant this is the age of promise and new frontiers are waiting