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...cutting down the illicit LSD traffic and the abuses to which the drug is put. They were likely to be even less successful than they have been with narcotics because bootleg LSD is relatively easy to manufacture. The stuff is made from lysergic acid, which is extracted from a fungus that grows on rye. By itself, it is neither dangerous nor expensive. It is usually imported from Europe. Processing it to LSD (dextro-lysergic acid diethylamide) is delicate and complex, and requires technical laboratory equipment, but demands no greater skills than those of a college chemistry major...
...whose career collapsed in 1945 when he sank into done addiction, but rebounded to new heights in 1959 with explosive appearances on the Tonight show to plug his bestselling memoirs (Mine Enemy Grows Older), giving voice to his acid appraisals of modern art ("a putrescent coma"), advertising ("an overripe fungus") and people in general ("adenoidal baboons"); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...under that name annually infect an estimated 40 million people in the U.S., 2,000,000 of them badly enough to send them sprinting to a doctor. But until recently, doctors could recommend little more than the various medications available without prescription on drugstore counters. And those assorted fungistatics (fungus retarders), whether liquid, powder or ointment, often did no better than...
...doctors can offer better advice. Tinactin, the first simple, locally applied fungicide (fungus killer), has already won 60% of the anti-fungal prescription market in the five months it has been available. Says Dr. Harry Robinson Jr. of the University of Maryland Medical School: "If the diagnosis of athlete's foot is correct-and often it is not-then treatment with Tinactin is 100% effective." The colorless, odorless, stainless liquid has no known side effects, and it works as well on nearly every other form of external fungus infection. In fact, Tinactin's impressive qualities have already earned...
Benefit & Bane. Even more dramatic are the contributions fungi have made to science and medicine. Yeasts' high content of vitamins makes them effective against beriberi and pellagra. Ergot, derived from fungus-infected grain, speeds labor in childbirth, helps control bleeding. A common red bread mold has vastly facilitated research on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which governs heredity and holds the secret of life...