Word: molde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...addressing chemists in Manhattan, reported that new methods developed in his laboratory had speeded up the making of penicillin 150-fold. The huge effort concentrated on penicillin-hundreds of scientists, 21 manufacturers, $20,000,000 in plants-has been concerned with one major problem: how to make the mold that produces penicillin yield more heavily. This delicate process has more hazards than an obstacle race. The penicillium mold, found in fertile soil, is cultivated in a sugary solution. It develops a network of very fine branches, *called "mycelium," which secrete penicillin. If the delicate mycelium breaks, production of penicillin stops...
...Crock of Mold...
...half months before Pearl Harbor that TIME carried a column-long story about the "marvelous mold that saves lives when sulfa drugs fail"-and went on to describe penicillium notatum...
...Rensselaer, N.Y. was in trouble again last week.* The Pure Food and Drug Administration claimed that the company had distributed some 22,000 packages of improperly distilled water and 73,000 ampoules of dextrose solution (which is made with distilled water) containing pyrogens (fever-producing substances), "undissolved particles" and mold. Patients showed "unusual symptoms" when a Boston hospital used some of the dextrose in spinal anesthesia. According to an Assistant U.S. Attorney one patient died, but the doctors think he would have died anyway. Winthrop called in all the offending packages long...
...last week, company officials cried Unfair! Hundreds of such cases, they claimed, come up every year without getting into print. It would take several quarts of the improperly distilled water to give a man a fever; the "undissolved particles" were material which had come off the ampoule glass; the mold was probably Penicillium notatum. (Winthrop makes penicillin.) Unfortunately for the company, distilled water is not supposed to contain anything but water, not even gratuitous penicillin...