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• 'The Art of Learning Medicine' collection
• 'An Artist in the University Medical Center' collection
• Other works of art
•     '21 Years with Cystic Fibrosis'
•     '100 to a Bottle'
•     '780 Children Have Lunch Within the Hour'
•     'Bronchoscopy'
•     'Case Discussion Before Making Rounds'
•     'The Elderly'
•     'Enzyme Replacement'
•     'Laser Procedure to Prevent Blindness'
•     'Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 3-D'
•     'MRI Film of an AIDS Patient'
•     'Nothing Will Ever Happen to Them'
•     'Not One Millimeter Off'
•     'One Out of Nine'
•     'Pediatric Nephrology Conference'
•     'Peptide Synthesization'
•     'Strategy for Radiation'
•     'Teaching Rounds at Charity'
•     'They Just Melted Away'
•     'Therapeutical Apheresis
•     'Waiting for a New Heart'
•     'World Wide Dissemination of Medical Knowledge'

'100 to a Bottle'
(ink drawing with tempera on plastic, 30' x 40')
©May H. Lesser

Alongside the National Institutes of Health and the university medical centers, the private pharmaceutical companies contribute valuable research to medical progress. I studied at one company the development of a new drug to combat AIDS, which has cost millions of dollars and a decade of time to perfect. It is a compound that acts on the receptor of the AIDS virus cell and is activated by latching on to that receptor as soon as it binds with that cell, releasing an endotoxin that will kill the cell locally. I had followed the complete development of this drug, through various laboratories of high technology microscopes and computers and finally it is being pressed into tablets in an old machine that I am assured is still the best to use. It adds a human touch to the invisible-to-the-human-eye-work done in all stages before this one.