Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marvelous mold that saves lives when sulfa drugs fail was described in the British Lancet last month by Professor Howard Walter Florey and colleagues of Oxford.+ The healing principle, called penicillin, is extracted from the velvety-green Penicillium notatum, a relative of the cheese mold. Although it does not kill germs, the mold stops the growth of streptococci and staphylococci with a power "as great or greater than that of the most powerful antiseptics known." Once the germs are checked, the body's white blood cells finish them...
Tried in ten different cases for a variety of infections, the mold produced effective results in nine. The cases...
...year-old boy with a bad streptococcic infection of the hip showed no improvement after large doses of sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine. Then penicillin was dripped continuously into his veins. After that he received frequent small injections of the mold. In a week he was greatly improved in spite of the small amount of penicillin he had received...
...civilian material - an ex-coxswain of the Harvard crew, a Yale-and Virginia-weaned son of a Manhattan broker, a Rollins College tennis player - had been ground and polished into finished products. Their juts of individualism had been smoothed off, the working equipment of an aviator, the military mold and manners of an officer, fitted...
...next and the next. It isn't as though this were the only good crew we were ever going to be able to boast of. Every Year the schools which specialize in producing oarsmen send their graduates to Harvard and Yale where Bolles and Ed Leader can mold them into Varsity eights. And every year the crews at New Haven and Cambridge rank far above average. Only infrequently is there such a lapse at one of the institutions that the shell would not make a good showing at Poughkeepsie...