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...epidemics of dysentery, one of the chief hazards of World War II. So announced Drs. Maurice Lee Moore and Charles S. Miller of Sharp & Dohme Laboratories at the Memphis meeting of the American Chemical Society last week. The drug, known as succinylsulfathiazole, is made from sulfanilamide and a fungus product. It was tried out on 40 patients at Johns Hopkins, produced no ill effects even when given in large amounts for periods as long as 16 months. Succinylsulfathiazole, said the doctors, may be important "as a protection for soldiers in the field, especially during campaigns in the tropics and where...
...than they are worth. When bright Dr. Jekyll decides to put all his evils in one basket by swallowing the laboratory brew which turns him into the dreadful Mr. Hyde, the result is not horrifying. It is laughable when he addresses his captured barmaid (Ingrid Bergman) as "my tired fungus"; revolting when he spits grape skins in her pretty face; hammy when he chuckles fiendish "Heh, heh, hehs" at his lecherous face in the mirror...
...Ergot, a fungus which grows in rye kernels, contains a score of medicinal factors. It is used mostly to start contractions of the uterus at childbirth. The fungus is difficult to separate from rye husks, is expensive to produce. Most of it came from Europe. About 20,000 Ib. were produced in the Middle West last year...
True, the potato famine did help establish Free Trade. But how about those stout-hearted manufacturers (not industrialists) of Manchester who sacrificed their fortunes and in some cases their lives for the principles of Free Trade long before the fungus struck the potato crop...
...spite of the political fungus that was nurtured by such "statesmen" as Disraeli, Gladstone, Wellington and others who sinned against the light, it was finally cleansed from the British mind by the long and titanic efforts of John Bright, Richard Cobden and others of the Manchester school...