Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laid in 1912, the play (unlike the book) introduces its hero in middle age, when the mold has hardened and the mold has begun to collect. To tradition-reflexed George Apley, Boston is Western Civilization, Emerson the Bible, Mount Auburn cemetery the carriage entrance to Heaven, and the strenuous life a round of bird walks, committee meetings and the best clubs. Sex, Apley gathers from a reading of Freud, "very largely governs the lives of the people ... in other parts of the country." Even in Boston, to Apley's dismay, its lure involves his son and daughter, as once...
Another drug made by a microscopic organism showed signs of becoming important last week. The Journal of the A.M.A. published an editorial on streptothricin, derived from Actinomyces lavendulae, a mold-like bacterium. Features of Streptothricin: 1) besides attacking many Gram-positive (blue-staining) bacteria, it attacks many of the Gram-negative (red-staining) against which penicillin is almost powerless-germs of typhoid, dysentery, etc.; 2) it is safe in therapeutic doses...
...discovery was made accidentally, in almost the same way as Dr. Alexander Fleming's finding of penicillin. The Buffalo researchers noticed a green fungus growing on a culture of tubercle bacilli stored in an icebox. The mold seemed to have an affinity for the tubercle germ; it did not grow well in any other medium. It produced a substance (not penicillin, which has been ineffective against tuberculosis) that checked the growth of tubercle bacilli. A preparation from the mold neutralized tuberculin in two hours...
Human tuberculosis germs treated with the mold were injected in 24 guinea pigs. Six died of T.B. The other 18 did not contract the disease, although an equal dose of the germs, not treated with the mold, was almost 100% fatal to a group of control animals...
...researchers have so far not identified the mold or tried it on human patients...