{"id":7047,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/how-bacitracin-got-its-name\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:35","slug":"how-bacitracin-got-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/how-bacitracin-got-its-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bacitracin Got Its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several important patent medicines and many prescriptions employ a potent antibiotic whose official name is bacitracin.  It gained that title because of a series of circumstances centering on a seven-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>In June, 1943, little Margaret Tracy was hit by a truck.  An infection developed and New York doctors were puzzled by how her body responded to it.  Eventually, an odd micro-organism was isolated from Margaret\u2019s wound.  Cultured and tested, the new strain proved to be the source of a powerful germ-inhibiting substance.  Because the bacteria-killing stuff came from little Miss Tracy\u2019s leg, it was named \u2018bacitracin\u2019 in her honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several important patent medicines and many prescriptions employ a potent antibiotic whose official name is bacitracin. It gained that title because of a series of circumstances centering on a seven-year-old girl. In June, 1943, little Margaret Tracy was hit by a truck. An infection developed and New York doctors were puzzled by how her body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4907,4908,972,4905,94,4906],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}