Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, Issue 45 — page 96: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION with streptomycin, an Ameri- can product, and there are eminent medical research workers who believe that if T.B. can be cured by any one drug, future experiments with streptomycin will even- tually provide the answer. Finally, there remains the greatest problem of them all— knowledge of life itself. Will scientists ever solve that prob- lem? Let us check the dis- coveries that have been already made in that enig- - matic field. Since 1828, when Friedrich Wohler created urea, a product normally made in the body by the liver, many products of living things have been created in the laboratory. The latest and most im- portant success is the protein molecule produced by Dr. Robert B. Woodward and Dr. C. H. Schramm. This places us literally on the doorstep of the knowledge that the scientists are seeking. There is every indication that the next fifty years will be sufficient for medical science to produce a man-made miracle of life. Not the life that we recog- nise in human or animal form, but certainly living tissue that could revolutionise plastic sur- gery by permitting the renewal of flesh and muscle at the specialist’s dictation, perhaps even the replacement of tired and worn-out organs. Should such an advanced stage be reached by 2000 A.D. then really breathtaking pos- sibilities would be opened up for us. comiclooks.comn