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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

MCGUIRE, James Myrlin (1909 – )

1909 –

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1952

#1946

“Ilotycin”, a new antibiotic.

MCGUIRE, James Myrlin (1909 – ) & et al.

Discovery of erythromycin. With R. L. Bunch, R. C. Anderson, H. E. Boaz, E. H. Flynn, H. M. Powell, and J. W. Smith.

1955

#11468

Vancomycin, a new antibiotic. I. Chemical and biologic properties.

MCGUIRE, James Myrlin (1909 – ) MCCORMICK, M. H. PITTENGER, G. E.

Edmund Kornfeld, an organic chemist working at Eli Lilly, first isolated Vancomycin in 1953 from a soil sample collected from the interior jungles of Borneo by a missionary, Rev. William M. Bouw (1918-2006). The organ…