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...book's perfect emblem is "A New Year Greeting." "I should like to think that I make/ a not impossible world," one stanza begins, "but an Eden it cannot be." Auden is addressing the invisible, microscopic creatures who inhabit his body ("Yeasts, Bacteria, Viruses, Aerobic and Anaerobics") as men inhabit the world. Clinical knowledge of their doings helps him spin out a metaphysical conceit that manages to spoof mildly the anthropocentric folly of men in assuming that God thinks in human imagery, and at the same time modestly asserts that God exists...
...producer of frozen pizza and other foods. Last year Jeno's sales were $50 million. Customers apparently like the products better than Consumer Reports does; in the June issue it rated several types of Jeno's Pizza "not acceptable" because they contained "excessive" amounts of bacteria. Jeno's spokesmen deny the charge...
...body cavity and onto his chest. They spent the next five hours wiping off Wallace's internal organs, using suction to remove contaminating wastes, and sewing up the holes in his gut. To help take care of infection-an inevitable consequence of the outpouring of bacteria from his digestive tract-the doctors placed drains in his abdomen as well as in the surgical incision...
...major danger to the patient remained internal infection. Despite the surgeons' heroic cleanup of the intestinal spillage from the first bullet, some bacteria remained and caused abscesses. Nine days after the operation, pus began to ooze from the surgical incision, and doctors detected an abscess in the left flank. Under local anesthesia, they cut into and drained the infection. Even with massive doses of antibiotics, Wallace now had peritonitis (a potentially fatal inflammation of the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity). It was then that the Governor was very near death. To be effective, antibiotics must reach bacteria through...
...pancreas, and some had injury to the kidneys. To test his thesis in humans, Burch took blood from autopsy subjects who had damaged heart valves but no history of rheumatic fever. In many cases he found evidence of a long-ago B4 infection. How viruses and strep bacteria, together or separately, work to harm the heart is not yet clear. But if B4 proves to be the principal culprit, Burch foresees the possibility of developing a vaccine against...