Monroe Romansky, Antibiotics Innovator

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WASHINGTON Monroe Romansky, an infectious disease doctor who in the 1940s developed a beeswax-and-peanut oil formula that prolonged the duration of penicillin in the body, died last Saturday at Sibley Memorial Hospital of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 95.

Romansky's Formula, as his discovery came to be known, transformed the treatment of such wartime infectious diseases as syphilis and pneumonia.

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Monroe Romansky, Antibiotics Innovator

"To keep penicillin in the body longer, scientists have tried out a dozen different met...

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