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Guilt & Innocence. Among the thousands of refugees from the Soviet terror was a 68-year-old Englishwoman whom rebels had released from seven years' solitary confinement in a 4 ft. 6 in. wide, fungus-ridden AVH cell. Said onetime lecturer and translator Dr. Edith Bone: "I was a 'secret prisoner.' No one in the world knew about me except the secret police. There are many thousands, perhaps millions, living, rotting like that in Iron Curtain countries." Explained Dr. Bone: "I was innocent [of the charge of being a British spy] but I was also guilty...
...breed oats resistant to Helminthosporium victoriae blight, Dr. Wheeler decided to copy the method of the bacteriologists. He reports in Science that he sprouted 100 bu. of oats (about 45 million grains), then doused the sprouted seeds with the toxin (poisonous secretion) of the Helminthosporium fungus, and later with the fungus itself. Out of the 45 million, 973 seedlings survived and grew. Thirty days later they were treated with all the other oat diseases, and 471 survived the second ordeal...
Dropped because they are outmoded are another 500 items. Mostly herbals, these included cypripedium (lady's slipper), once used as a sedative in hysteria and neuralgia; diabetes weed, and corn smut (derived from a fungus), which stimulated uterine contractions in childbirth. Carried over from edition to edition, of course: quack grass...
...intestine is not the only organ troubled by the Monilia fungus. This microorganism was first found in the throat (in cases of thrush), also occurs regularly in the vagina. Many women who take aureomycin or related antibiotics develop a stubborn inflammation of the vagina and perineal region. Sometimes the organism spreads over large areas and reaches the lungs or brain heart or kidneys. There have been cases in which a child's entire body has been covered with itchy inflammation. In treating such cases of moniliasis, still another antibiotic has been found to help undo the harm wrought...
...Emma Sadler Moss, 57, of New Orleans' Charity Hospital, became the first woman in the U.S. to head a major professional medical society when she was installed as president of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists in Chicago. A nationally known expert in parasitology and the study of fungus diseases. Dr. Moss has a fascinating personal medical record. Born in Pearlington, Miss., she started life as a 3-lb. premature baby in a cotton-lined shoebox beside an open fireplace. Since then, she has overcome rabbit fever, acute gangrenous appendicitis, peritonitis, lobar pneumonia and mammary cancer...