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Other important penicillin news: Drs. George H. Robinson and James E. Wallace of Pittsburgh have used crude green penicillium mold (which produces the drug penicillin) in healing stubborn surface wounds. Highly refined penicillin, on which the armed forces have priorities, is necessary for bloodstream injections, but the doctors did not see why surface poultices needed to be so fancy. Their idea was that the living mold might make penicillin right in the wound. They are not sure what actually happens, but the results are good. With mold-inoculated gauze they cured a man with an acute bone infection...
...heavy bloodstream infections, dosages should be large from the start (about 15,000 units every three hours). With too-small doses, bacteria sometimes develop penicillin resistance...
...these men lost weight and none of them were pudgy when they landed on the beach. Weight losses in muscular, toughened young adults ran as high as 45 lb. Rain, heat, insects, dysentery, malaria all contributed-but the end result was not bloodstream infection nor gastrointestinal disease, but a disturbance of the whole organism, a disorder of thinking and living, of even wanting to live...
...tsetse looks something like an ordinary housefly, but has the sharp proboscis and the bloodthirsty habits of a mosquito. When an infected tsetse bites a man, it injects into his bloodstream protozoa known as trypanosomes, which-for the tsetse is omnivampiverous-it may have picked up from the blood of alligators, hippopotamuses, hartebeests, etc. This parasite invades the human lymph stream, the spleen, finally the brain. At first, tsetse victims become feverish, develop swollen lymph glands. Gradually they fall into a deep slumber, grow delirious as the trypanosomes attack the nervous system and brain. Many of these sleeping sick...
...gusty notions of Oswald Spengler. He proposed that the battling nations abandon their differences, present a united front against "foreign races." Among those he described as inferior aliens were the Mongols, the Persians and the Moors, who he feared would corrupt the blood stream of the west. That bloodstream, he pointed out, was our most precious pos session...