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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

DUGGAR, Benjamin Minge (1872 – 1956)

1872 – 1956

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1948

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Aureomycin; a product of the continuing search for new antibiotics.

DUGGAR, Benjamin Minge (1872 – 1956)

Discovery of clortetracycline (trade name Aureomycin, Lederle) the first tetracycline antibiotic identified. Duggar,a plant physiologist, identified the antibiotic as the product of an actinomycete he cultured from a …