Word: notatum
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...first, penicillin was produced only in small flasks (relatively easy to protect against contamination) from a strain of the mold, Penicillium notatum. In Dr. Coghill's laboratory, mycologists developed new, heavier-yielding strains. They also found that the mold's growth could be greatly speeded in a brew of lactose made from skimmed milk and steep liquor made from corn...
...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...
...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...
...watching the swing of a lamp in the Cathedral of Pisa and deducing from it the law of the pendulum, and Isaac Newton watching the fall of an apple and deducing from it the law of gravity. For thousands of years men looked at the cryptogamic mold called Penicillium notatum, but Dr. Fleming was the first to see its cryptic meaning. His discernment, restoring to science the creative vision which it has sometimes been held to lack, also restored health to millions of men living and unborn...
...Penatin, like penicillin (TIME, June 7), is a drug extracted from the mould Pencillium notatum. The University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Walter Kocholaty calls it even more powerful against bacteria than penicillin...