Word: bacterias
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...beldams of yesteryear who gave onions and garlic to stave off typhus, let pennies grow green in the cellar for use on cuts, and put moldy bread on wounds had the right idea, though their practice was often fatal. For, some of their remedies contained antibiotics,* the natural bacteria-fighting substances produced by living organisms...
...exciting search in all bacteriology. In dozens of laboratories, experts are looking for antibiotics to fight the many diseases penicillin cannot cure: tuberculosis, leprosy, cholera, dysentery, tularemia, salmonella food poisoning, many virus diseases. Already about 20 substances with such fancy names as clavacin, gliotoxin, patulin have been isolated from bacteria and molds, tested, discarded as either too weak or poisonous...
...when King Prajadhipok of Siam came to the U.S. for treatment of his cataract, Edgar Burchell was an expert in eye, ear, nose & throat bacteriology and pathology. It was he who determined that the little king's eye was free from dangerous bacteria and could safely be operated...
...Play: three fantastically ugly puppets, representing bacteria, loosen a lower tooth, look for a ladder to knock out an upper. Enter the Dentist. Enter also a lady puppet in a tubelike dress, a gentleman with hog-bristled pate. Senorita La Pasta (toothpaste) and Senor El Cepillo (toothbrush) kill the dental gremlins. In a quick change of scene the magnified mouth vanishes, its possessor reappears. An apple-cheeked urchin named Comino, he promises to brush his teeth forever after. As the curtain drops, his audience presumably vows to do just as Comino does...
...newest substitute for blood plasma is made from beets. Dextran, reported last week by Professor Arne Tiselius of Sweden's Institute of Physical Chemistry, is a white, jellylike substance which results when the bacteria Leuconostoc mesenteroides lives in beet sugar (it has long been a plague of sugar factories because it clogs up the pipes...