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Diverticulitis results when waste matter becomes fixed in small, hernia-like outward bulges of the intestinal wall that sometimes develop where blood vessels enter. Bacteria multiply in the waste, and the intestinal wall becomes inflamed and infected. Untreated, the infection may rupture and form an abscess outside the wall of the colon. A fistula is an abnormal passage that burrows into another organ or to the outside of the body. Symptoms in severe cases of diverticulitis:* nausea, vomiting, pain, constipation or diarrhea, chills and fever. Possible treatments: antibiotics, special diet, surgery...
...surface may have been fairly hot, Dr. Fox mixed together the 18 amino acids common to the proteins of all living organisms and heated them gently. He got "proteinoids" that behave very much like proteins found in nature. They are digested by natural enzymes and eaten by bacteria. If polyphosphoric acid is added to the mix, the reaction takes place at only 160° F., well below the boiling point of water...
...protein molecules? Dr. Fox does not think this is difficult; he has done something very like it himself. He dissolved in hot water some of the proteinoids that he made by heating amino acids. When he cooled the solution, billions of microspheres appeared, about the size of cocci (round bacteria) and looking very much like them. They shrink when salt is added, and this suggests that they are hollow and that their walls are slightly permeable like the cell walls of bacteria...
...have been repeated billions of times in different places, generating during each repetition many billions of microspheres. Eventually, one of them happened to have in its membrane the proper chemical wherewithal for a dim sort of life. Once this spark was alight, the great parade of evolution, from bacteria up to man, was a natural consequence...
Chemical companies often call for molds or bacteria to make such things as citric acid for soft drinks. Airplane manufac turers order fungi to test the mildew proofing of their airplanes. Three strains of mutated Staphylococcus aureus, a con tribution from Russia, are used for screen ing anti-cancer drugs...