Word: patulin
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...objects of the most exciting search in all bacteriology. In dozens of laboratories, experts are looking for antibiotics to fight the many diseases penicillin cannot cure: tuberculosis, leprosy, cholera, dysentery, tularemia, salmonella food poisoning, many virus diseases. Already about 20 substances with such fancy names as clavacin, gliotoxin, patulin have been isolated from bacteria and molds, tested, discarded as either too weak or poisonous...
...those with weeping noses and stuffy heads came some hopeful news last week. While Britain was giving patulin a tryout (TIME, Nov. 29), U.S. doctors reported three successful attacks on the common cold...
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