Word: bacterias
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...After 16 years, Walter Winchell and his longtime sponsor, the Jergens Co., agreed to part company when their contract ends next Dec. 31. The split came when Jergens tried to plug Dryad, a deodorant, with a commercial that was too malodorous for Winchell (". . . decaying action of bacteria in perspiration . . ."). Winchell did not need to worry about losing Jergens' $390,000 a year. His network, ABC, rushed in and signed him to a $520,000-a-year contract (to prevent him from going to CBS), promised to turn over anything extra that another sponsor might want...
...impurity get into the glucose? Best guess of the Cutter Laboratories: the bottles were jarred in shipment and their rubber stoppers loosened. When the vacuum was broken, air rushed in and bacteria formed a poisonous mold that grew readily in the glucose. Laboratory technicians pointed out that all boxes of glucose they ship contain this warning to doctors: make sure that the vacuum has not been broken, and beware of cloudiness, a sign of contamination...
Medicine's frantic search for a single diagnosis of every case, said Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, turns bacteria into demons and medicine into a demoniac science. Physicians, he said, should think of disease "in terms of the total economics of the personality...
Polysaccharides. Cancers in mice have been destroyed by some bacterial polysaccharides (enormous sugarlike molecules derived from bacteria), reported Dr. Hugh J. Creech of Lankenau Hospital's Research Institute in Philadelphia. Drawbacks: 1) repeated doses have little or no effect because the mice build up an immunity to the substance; 2) doses high enough to bypass the immunity may kill the mice as well as the cancer...
...advantage of aerosporin: thus far bacteria have had a hard time developing resistance to it. One drawback: like streptomycin and other antibiotics, it may cause slight damage to the kidneys. Dr. Brownlee is sure that the kidney damage is caused by an impurity, which can eventually be removed. Meantime, the impurity is counteracted by an amino acid...