Word: penicillin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complex life cycles that differ with different species. Antimalarial drugs work by attacking the parasites when they are most accessible and vulnerable, usually in the bloodstream. In theory, a man who is taking his chloroquine regularly should not get malaria. But just as some bacteria have become resistant to penicillin, so have some falciparum parasites developed enough resistance to chloroquine to be labeled "refractory" by Army medics. Most servicemen hospitalized for malaria are out in a week or ten days. Relapses may occur whenever a recovered patient's resistance is lowered-especially if he is wounded and loses much...
...savory truffle is a fungus, and so is the unsavory trifle that causes athlete's foot. Life-saving penicillin comes from one fungus (Penicillium notatum); from another comes the lichen that is slowly devouring the Parthenon. Yet another yields the drug LSD, which has been used experimentally in the treatment of schizophrenic children and alcoholics. Knowledge of the complex, infinitely various, unbelievably hardy fungus kingdom has multiplied immeasurably in the past century. In this fascinating, ambitious book by Lucy Kavaler, its villains, heroes and hopefuls are fully explained to the nonscientific reader...
...cultivating the first two goods, Frederic Schwartz's company has collected plenty of the third. Since he took charge in 1957 of the Bristol-Myers Co., whose attention to health and beauty is centered on products as varied as penicillin and Ipana, profits have risen an average of 20% a year and the company has become a Wall Street favorite. Last week Bristol-Myers reported that its earnings in 1964 jumped 21%, to $23 million, as sales rose 15% to $265 million...
Venereal disease does not attract many medical researchers. There never have been great numbers of syphilologists, and their numbers and efforts have been sharply reduced since the 1945 discovery that penicillin is a fast and almost certain cure for early syphilis. But last week, as the most prominent U.S. syphilologists met in Denver for a VD seminar, it became clear that the cutback in research is premature. What is urgently needed is a vaccine against the disease...
...precarious exercise to climb a ladder to a gallery while carrying the delicate crystals with which she worked. But whatever the circumstances, she maintained an elegance of appearance and achievement. No distraction was enough to spoil the work that led to a thorough knowledge of the penicillin molecule, and to the discovery of the structure of Vitamin B12, the recalcitrant molecule with a cobalt atom heart that is essential to human life...