National Institute of Mental Health about drug abuse. Narrator talks about a prescription drug addiction and a "junkie: woman, taking many pills without consulting family doctor being unaware of their harmful effects. A woman gets into a woody station wagon car with a child. She starts the car and drives away. Aerial view of station wagon driving away. Narration is voice of Rod Serling.
National Institute of Mental Health PSA about drug abuse and illegal drugs. Scene of a woman's hand placing various pills in a small pill box. Medicines and capsules containing powerful amphetamine and barbiturate drugs are placed in the tin. Narrator Rod Serling talks about drug abuse and notes that taking drugs without a prescription may cause harm.
National Institute of Mental Health describe so-called "fat" doctors prescribing capsules containing powerful drugs to patients seeking to diet and lose weight. Smiling doctor removes his stethoscope. Doctor picking up bottle of pills. Bottle of pills placed on counter with other pills. Nurse putting bottle of pills into a paper bag for a smiling woman. Doctor weighing woman on a scale. Bottles containing pills on a rack. Close up keying in transaction on a cash register. Close up cash register amount displayed. Women lined up at cash register while nurse and doctor fill bags.
Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming isolates antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus at St Mary's Hospital in London, United Kingdom. A petri dish with penicillin. Articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy are published. Pharmacologist Howard Walter Florey extracts penicillin at Oxford University. In June 1941, tiny flask of penicillin brought to the United States. Chemists work and develop penicillin in refined form. Penicillin Production Factory. Penicillin is built in many forms. Penicillin is made in huge fermentation tanks and passed through many machines for purifying and refining. Quantities of penicillin reduced in gallons to recover it. It is concentrated in the laboratory. Water contained penicillin, evaporated at laboratory. Penicillin transferred to sterilized vials and packed in boxes. Penicillin prepared for use.
Doctor Harrison Flippin, MD, Assistant Professor of Graduate School talks about three basic principles of penicillin therapy: The organism must be susceptible to penicillin, the organism must be reached by penicillin in adequate concentration and the organism must be eradicated or suppressed. Procedure of penicillin therapy in laboratory: penicillin in test tube and slide test of it. Scenes of Gram positive bacteria and Gram negative bacteria. A patient suffers from gangrene. Doctor and nurse examine the Pneumonia patient. Doctor and nurse empty the injection of blood in vial for study. Nurse prepares for giving injection and treatment. Nurse injects infected region of patient.
Nurse enters a patient room. She gives food to patient. Patient eats food. Penicillin in test tubes. After taking treatment of penicillin therapy, patient feels better and reads newspaper. Doctors examines patient, whose general condition does not improve within two days. Doctor reads the reports of patient. He checks with other doctors and nurse whether surgery is required or not. Chart explains concentration of penicillin in blood with time.
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