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...step toward the control of one kind of cancer was announced this week by Dr. Hugh J. Creech of Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research. The variety of cancer: sarcoma, a deadly form which involves the body's connective tissues. The medication: Polysaccharides (multiple sugars) produced by bacteria...
From birth to death, every normal person carries in his bowels billions of rod-shaped micro-organisms which the doctors call coliform bacteria. Usually these little "bugs" do no harm; in fact, their presence is considered normal. But every now & then, infants dying of epidemic diarrhea are found to harbor coliform bacteria which seem to be abnormal. Last week, every baby born in Port Huron Hospital, Mich., and every patient admitted, was being tested for a suspected killer of this type which had been isolated there, for the first time...
...hope that other such outbreaks might be arrested or avoided. Last August, babies born in Port Huron's red brick, ivy-covered hospital and sent home as normal began to be readmitted with diarrhea. Some died. Laboratory tests indicated none of the three commonest causes of the disease (bacteria of the Shigella or Salmonella groups, or a virus). In October the disease invaded the hospital's nursery. To cut down cross-infection, babies were kept in their mothers' rooms. But by year's end the death toll had reached...
Desperate hospital officials called in Dr. Albert E. Heustis, Michigan's Health Commissioner. Dr. Heustis and his staff sent to Scotland and Denmark for samples of a peculiarly virulent strain, previously reported only from Europe and catalogued by Danish experts as O-111, of the normally harmless coliform bacteria. An identical form was found in the bowels of 90% of Port Huron's infected babies...
...this method and refinements of it, he at last found, in a sample of cranberry bog soil sent to him by Waksman, an organism from whose cultures he separated an active fraction that he named gramicidin. It killed or halted many disease bacteria, but it was dangerous for internal...