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...other isolated forces can subsist on leaves, wood and grass. At least, Biochemist Gustav J. Martin of New York thinks so. But, as he told the American Chemical Society in Memphis last week, soldiers' guts first have to be conditioned to this allfours diet, by getting certain harmless bacteria domiciled among the trillions of other bacteria normally present in the human intestine...
...Koch, a discredited M.D., and his brother Louis have widely marketed from their Koch Laboratories a phony synthetic "antitoxin" for cancer called Glyoxylide. They claimed it was made from fatty sulfur compounds, sold it for prices ranging from $25 to $300 a thimbleful. Since cancer is not caused by bacteria but is an anarchy of the body's own cells, a cancer antitoxin is a contradiction in terms. Last week the Koch Bros, were arrested for violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Their brew was found watery. Said Assistant U.S. Attorney John C. Ray: "Chemical analysis shows...
...treatment to avoid gas gangrene has been developed by Lieut. Colonel Frank Scozzari Adamo. He cleans wounds with hydrogen peroxide, which liberates oxygen, kills gas-forming bacteria, unable to live in air. Then he opens the wounds wide, slitting the muscles longitudinally and exposing a large area to the air, so that the gas germs cannot breed. The slit muscles heal easily. By this "conservative surgery" Surgeon Adamo claims to have saved a large number of arms and legs...
...Luminous Bacteria. A $1,000 prize went to Biologist Frank Harris Johnson of Princeton and Physiologists Dugald Edmund Smith Brown and Douglas Alfred Marsland of New York University for observing the action of enzymes in a living organism. The three collaborators worked with luciferase, the one enzyme which can be watched at work inside a living organism. It is the enzyme which lights up fireflies, and also lights up the bacteria which often make ponds and seawater phosphorescent. Working with flaskfuls of luminous bacteria, the researchers found that alcohol and anesthetics, when added in small amounts to the bacterial solutions...
Theory is that the detergent attacks the bacteria's protective coats, leaves them naked and dead. Several top-notch medical researchers are now exploring the uses of wetting agents. So far suggested: in obstetrics, preoperative disinfection of skin and instruments in surgery, cleansing of superficial wounds, throat swabs, athlete's foot. Some detergents will inactivate the influenza virus...