The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-27
BY EPSIE KINARD EA StaR COrresDOndent

OolQ springs HarDOr, N. X.-A Are you all right?" The woman's voice over the telephone was tense.
 On the answer to her question hung the fate of pencillin exper- iment which might affect all man. kind.
 But her concern was for young colleague, who alone at night in a deserted laboratory was self-strapped Into an oXygen-mask, pumping pen icillin for the first time into human lungs to put his experiment 10 the crucial test. He was 3l-year old Yer non Bryson, research scientist of the Long Island Biological Laboratory, who one night last June pulled a successful experiment from his test tubes which may chalk up another triumph for the wonder drug.
 Proof of its great promise is that his method for inhaling pen!cillin is in experimental use in the Hunt | in2ton Long Island Hospital and in the College of Physicians and Sur geonS of New York's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Prom ising to be a more effective cure for pulmonary diseases, the new method of administering the yellow magic is to have patients drag it into their lungs in Q mist of fine particles. This gets bigger doses more directly to infected lung areas.
 COLLEAGUES HELP
 In developing the method, Bry- sen had the help of two colleagues. One, whose telephone call on that eventful summer night climaxed a six months experiment is Eva San- some, British mycologist of the i neighboring Carnegie Institute of Genetics. The other is Sidney Las kin, a fellow staff member of Bry- sons at the Long Island Biological Laboratory, where the two young mer are engaged in wartime phy- siological research of confidential nature.
 If we hadn't hit upon the meth { cd of harnessing the new penicillin to an existing technique of inhala- ticnal therapy, someone else would have" says Bryson, Ph,D. son Of Columbia University's famed Dr. Ly- man Bryson, young man who mas been at home in science lab since the test tubes tt San Diego CCalJ High first caught his fancy. EXPLAINS FORMULA
 Although painfully modest on the subject of his accomplishment, Biy- son, who is youthful looking, dark eyed and dlfndent, did explain in ! the manner of science teacher explaining simple formula the big problem which he and his two col 1 leagues were up against.
 That he said, after ushering me into his evergreen-framed white cottage overlooking Long Island Sound, was to see if pencillin could be made into mist and inhaled without destroying the potency of the drug"
 While pr. Bryson explained how the penicillin mist was tested out on mice and rabbits to prove that t would penetrate into the lungs, his four stairstep- sized children romped back and forth from the chintz-bright living room where their pop talked, to the kitchen where their lovely blonde mother kept busy cooking their dinner.
 "T'he mice" Bryson said, were marched into glass testing chambers and exposed to a penicillin mist. La ter, when their lung lobes were ground up, penicillin was found to 1 be present." This was the evidence he and his colleagues had set out to get. Additional proof obtained was penicillin recovered in the ur- inc of experimental rabbits.
 The new treatment, he explained, is simply applied with nebulized--