Editing 1943 in science (section)

==Pharmacology==
* March 23 – The drugs [[Vicodin]] and [[Lortab]] are made in Germany.
* October 19 – The [[antibiotic]] [[streptomycin]] (the first antibiotic remedy for [[tuberculosis]]) is first isolated by [[Albert Schatz (scientist)|Albert Schatz]] in the laboratory of [[Selman Abraham Waksman]] at [[Rutgers University]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal|author =Comroe, J. H. Jr|title=Pay dirt: the story of streptomycin. Part I: from Waksman to Waksman|journal=[[American Review of Respiratory Disease]]|year=1978|volume=117|issue=4|pages=773–781|pmid=417651|doi=10.1164/arrd.1978.117.4.773|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024}}</ref>
* December – [[Winston Churchill]]'s recurring [[bacterial pneumonia]] is successfully treated with the [[sulphapyridine]] [[May & Baker|M&B]] 693, a first-generation [[Sulfonamide (medicine)|sulphonamide]] [[antibiotic]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Surviving War; Declining Health|url=http://lincolnandchurchill.org/surviving-war-declining-health/|website=Lincoln & Churchill|publisher=Lehrman Institute|access-date=2017-01-21|date=2013-11-07}}</ref>
* A golden mould, ''Penicillium chrysogenum'', growing on an American [[cantaloupe]] in [[Peoria, Illinois]], is found to be ideal for mass production of [[penicillin]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Neushul|first=P.|date=1993|title=Science, government, and the mass production of penicillin|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8283024|journal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences|volume=48|issue=4 |pages=371–395|doi=10.1093/jhmas/48.4.371|pmid=8283024}}</ref>