Home
Search transcripts:    Advanced Search
Notable New     Yorkers
Select     Notable New Yorker

Mary LaskerMary Lasker
Photo Gallery
Transcript

Part:         Session:         Page of 999

Q:

You said that you and Jordan Gutterman went to talk with some of these Senators?

Lasker:

Gutterman. Jordan Gutterman.

Q:

Oh, I see, Jordan, you called him by his first name.

Lasker:

Yes. So, I'll have to tell you a year from now what happens. It's really terrible. I'll tell you in the fall.

Q:

All right. We won't wait until the year's up.

Lasker:

Because you know, this thing, if it's made as successful as it could be, could be like the incoming of antibiotics. And the whole picture of viral diseases and cancer, many kinds of cancers, would change, withing a couple of years, once it was commercially available on a big scale.

You know, people don't even remember now how many people died of infections -- many, many doctors were not in medical school before antibiotics.

Q:

Exactly.

Lasker:

And I just know a few doctors that were in medical school before there were antibiotics. The whole picture of everything changed.





© 2006 Columbia University Libraries | Oral History Research Office | Rights and Permissions | Help