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...penicillin synthetically-and penicillin is desperately scarce. This speculation popped out of a report to the American Chemical Society, in which Manhattan's Drs. Gustav J. Martin and C. Virginia Fisher observed that penicillin seems to act much like the acridine group of drugs which deprive bacteria of oxygen. The doctors even guessed that penicillin may turn out to be a member of this group which can be manufactured easily...
...Martin and Fisher also talked about a new extract of penicillium mold, penicillin B (the original penicillin must henceforth be called penicillin A). Penicillin B's attack is exactly opposite to A's-it supplies bacteria with too much oxygen. The two should never be used together, as they might cancel each other out. Researchers at St. Louis University who isolated the new penicillin B claim that it is ten times as effective as penicillin A, but even rarer...
Minus "passenger comforts" (food cupboards, pillows, oxygen, stewardesses), two 21-passenger DC-35 were turned over to the freight run, still equipped with seats for quick reconversion if necessary. But ground crews managed to pack in 4,000 to 6,000 Ib. of high-priority cargo (including mail) for each flight...
...Walker believes his finding has more than industrial significance. He thinks, for example, that it may explain a phenomenon which has long puzzled physiologists: why it is that oxygen can pass from the lung into the blood, but blood cannot enter the lung. Walker's theory: blood vessels in the walls of the lung are porous membranes coated with fatty substances that are not wetted by blood, therefore they block blood but let gases pass freely...
...normally. But when they started cutting, last March, they used water" that was a little different from the water used in the tests. Results: during the 45-day aging period when the laxative material (extract of senna) normally becomes oxidized to produce some substances called oxyquinones, the material lost oxygen instead, thereby developed the anthroquinones. Looking back on it now, the makers realize that the Castoria could have been fixed up by heating, longer aging, or introducing oxygen...