graduate students at Rutgers University, including Albert Schatz and Elizabeth Bugie, isolated an antibiotic known as streptomycin, publishing their findings in early 1944. American soldiers with severe infections began receiving the drug a year later. The first patient died. The second survived but was blinded (an occasional side effect of the medication). The third patient was a critically ill young Army officer named Bob Dole, who would survive, and go on to become a U.S. senator, Republican nominee for president, and noted Viagra spokesperson.
