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...past Agriculture research projects have come frozen orange juice and instant mashed potatoes, stretch-cotton fabrics and machine-washable woolens, cheaper penicillin and longer-lasting blood plasma. Projects now in the works promise a wild-green-yonder of even greater farm abundance-and, of course, threaten bigger surpluses. The department's scientists are breeding new, higher-yielding varieties of wheat; they are trying to devise ways of making grain crops and grasses add nitrogen to the soil instead of subtracting it; they are combatting the boll weevil and other crop-destroying insects by sterilizing male insects in laboratories, then...
...Navy doctors had no need to panic. It was at this same San Diego base 20 years ago that sulfa drugs had proved an almost sure cure for meningococcal meningitis and, no less important, a superb preventive. Wilkowski, severely ill, had to have sulfadiazine intravenously, so he got penicillin as well. All 80 men in his company were ordered to take sulfadiazine tablets twice a day for three days...
Massive Medication. Although VD researchers are still arguing over whether some strains of the gonococcus are now resistant to penicillin, cure is almost certain if the treatment is intensive enough. To give the germs no chance. PHS experts recommend minimal doses of 1,200,000 to 2,400,000 units of penicillin for simple cases of gonorrhea and as much as 20 million units a day for such serious complications as gonorrheal arthritis and heart infection. For the few patients who cannot tolerate penicillin, several other antibiotics are almost as good...
Because World War II soldiers suffered fewer serious wound infections if they got prompt penicillin treatment, surgeons got the idea that patients could be protected against infections if they were given a hefty dose of antibiotics at the time of operation. Not so, says Scottish-trained Surgeon Frederick R. C. Johnstone. Far from giving added protection, this prophylactic use of antibiotics introduces extra hazards in the vast majority of civilian cases...
...Wood, who for the past few days has been in Cambridge as a guest of Dunster House, has concentrated most of his subsequent research in this same field. During the war, he served as a government consultant on the project that developed combat applications for sulfanilamide and penicillin, two drugs which aid the natural action of white blood cells against infection. Currently, he is studying the process by which blood cells produce the substance that raises a fever...