Word: penicillins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High-Speed Breeding. Trying to develop a blight-resistant kind of oat, Plant Pathologist H. E. Wheeler of Louisiana State University envied the wholesale methods of bacteriologists. When they want a bacterial strain that is resistant to, say, penicillin, they treat a culture containing millions or billions of bacteria with the drug. Only a few may survive, but the survivors multiply rapidly, and soon the culture is alive with the resistant strain...
...UNICEF will supply free penicillin, send technical advisers when necessary. African nations will match this contribution in personnel, equipment and operating costs. Already, whole villages are shuffling through palm-topped clinics improvised by traveling medical units. The word of penicillin's magic has spread: a single shot, costing only 12?, cures a victim of yaws...
...massaged regularly. Day and night for seven years, he was shifted every half hour from one position to another to keep his circulation unimpaired. When, in the second year, he developed an abscess, he was operated on without anesthesia. In the fourth year he was cured of pneumonia with penicillin...
...items added since the last (1947) edition, most are complex organic substances like the hormones ACTH, cortisone, hydrocortisone, aldosterone, prednisone; peace-of-mind preparations such as Rauwolfia derivatives and chlorpromazine; assorted sedatives for a restless age; and a slew of new antibiotics. Penicillin in 137 varieties rates 28 pages. Medicinal radioisotopes, included for the first time, take four pages. Anti-histaminics, just becoming popular in 1947, have multiplied like rabbits...
...raised the cost of imports; that was where Lonardi's proposed austerity came in. To smooth the transition and hold down inflation, the government for the time being planned to tax the more profitable exports, e.g., beef, and use the tax to subsidize the more vital imports, e.g., penicillin...