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...they can also become susceptible to blights and pests. It was a bout of wet, chilly air during the growing season that apparently touched off the Middle Ages' outbreaks of St. Anthony's fire -excruciatingly painful convulsions and gangrenous hands and feet that are caused by a fungus which grows on rye in cold, damp weather. Some changes, to be sure, could be beneficial. The Midwest's corn growers expect harvests to go up in slightly chillier weather (because the cold reduces water losses through evaporation). But in most cases, any changes in climate mean trouble...
...taught Biology 2, "Cellular, Developmental and Functional Biology"; Biology 14, "Genetics"; and Biology 301, "Mycology and Fungal Genetics". His book, "Genetics of Sexuality in Higher Fungi," summarized 20 years of research on the physiology and reproduction of Schizophyllum, a mushroom-like fungus...
...flashes occured while he was working with Dr. Henry Kunkel at New York's Rockefeller University in 1950. Good observed lhat patients with different types of tumors suffered from different types of infections. Those with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphoid system, were particularly susceptible to TB, fungus and viral infections; those with multiple myelomas, or cancers of the bone marrow, were vulnerable to such bacterial infections as streptococcus and pneumococcus. Subsequent observation and experiments at the University of Minnesota convinced Good that there were not one but two basic immune responses. One, controlled by the thymus...
After every other remedy failed (including such folksy "cures" as injecting trees with turpentine or whacking galvanized nails into their trunks), scientists believe they have found a way to stop the fungus that causes the disease and the elm-bark beetles that spread it. The new approach involves two steps: spraying dormant elms in early spring with a pesticide called methoxychlor, which is lethal to the beetle but harmless to most other insects, and then spraying again in June with a chemical called Benlate, which attacks only the fungus. Instead of spraying, the arborist may also inject Benlate directly into...
Modern medicine has more potent weapons. Ergotamine tartrate, an ergot, or rye fungus derivative, constricts painfully swollen blood vessels and helps many migraine-and cluster-headache patients. Tranquilizers can also provide short-term relief of the tension that can trigger a severe headache. Psychological treatment to uncover emotional causes has worked for many people. But for some patients, nothing works very well. Taking what small solace they can from the fact that they are in famous company, they must do what headache sufferers have done for many centuries -learn to endure their ailment...