Word: germs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...virtually untested drug has ever been greeted with such optimistic fanfare as dimethyl sulfoxide, or DMSO, a colorless liquid extracted from paper-pulp wastes and commonly used as an industrial solvent. It has been widely hailed, both in the press and by some doctors, as a painkiller, a germ killer, diuretic, tranquilizer, a reliever of burns and sprains - besides being a wondrous solvent that enables other drugs to penetrate the skin and alleviate conditions as varied as crippling arthritis and athlete's foot. The surgeon who discovered DMSO's medicinal properties in 1963, Dr. Stanley W. Jacob...
...last week's A.M.A. Journal, Pediatricians Irwin J. Light and James M. Sutherland reported how well the technique worked. They grew a gentle strain of staph, dubbed 502A, in soy broth, and swabbed a minute amount of the germ-laden fluid into the nostrils and on the unhealed navels of one-hour-old babies in Cincinnati General Hospital. The 502A "took"; air sampling and other tests showed that dangerous strains of staph soon disappeared from the nurseries. But the harmful strains reappeared after swabbing was stopped. Medical men call the staph v. staph process "bacterial interference...
Surgeon Joseph Lister had never heard of viruses when he began to de velop aseptic surgery a century ago, but he showed uncanny prescience when he picked carbolic acid for the germ-killing spray in his operating rooms. Temple University's Dr. Mor ton Klein has been comparing germi cides, and reports that Lister's phenol, or carbolic acid, is as potent as the fancier formulations of modern chem istry against most viruses; it is actually more potent against some of the small est viruses, which cause many respira tory diseases and polio. Also potent are sodium hypochlorite...
...shorter than the left). Nicklaus, however, was the 4-1 betting favorite over the likes of four-time Champion Arnold Palmer (6-1) and South Africa's Gary Player (8-1), who had worked himself into a fine frenzy for the Masters by lifting weights, eating wheat germ, and boning up on Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking. Pealed Player: "I'm playing so well I can't believe...
...South Vietnamese troops "were using gas"-none of the rumors said what kind-against the Viet Cong guerrillas. Last week, quite by accident, German-born Associated Press Photographer Horst Faas succeeded, and thereby touched off the noisiest and most hysterical protests since the Communists accused the U.S. of waging germ warfare in Korea...