Word: penicillins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Sir Alexander Fleming and the penicillin he discovered have recently come in for some unkind words. In Britain, critics complain that Fleming got a bigger share than he deserved of the credit for penicillin-that more should have gone to Sir Howard Florey and Dr. Ernst Chain, who first took it out of the lab and put it into a patient. In the U.S., doctors say that strains of bacteria resistant to penicillin are emerging everywhere, and that these may breed diseases from which penicillin can give no relief...
...Manhattan last week, honeymooning with his 40-year-old Greek bride, 71-year-old Sir Alexander vigorously defended his antibiotic. "[The trouble] is not that it makes the microbes resistant," he said, "but rather that some people become sensitive to it. The penicillin still works on the germs, but the patient sometimes becomes too uncomfortable to permit its use ... In those cases, the cure may be worse than the ailment...
...speech defect, Walsh gives poor expression to a persuasive case. Even the ideas of Pascal sound pretty shallow in the childish lisp which the author conceives as "the language of the student." Analyzing Existence as "a three layer cake," the book abounds in silly metaphors, terming Christ "the penicillin of Salvation" and the Incarnation "God's rescue operation." His attempts at jazzy writing are equally dismal, whether describing a "Warm Fire" home (one in which "the smallest children pray as naturally as they reach for the peanut butter") or declaring that the Israelites, with "breaks. . . went through...
...immediate cause of the changes was some cases of unchivalrous black-marketeering. In 1946, a shipment of penicillin, ordered in the U.S. by an unnamed representative of the Knights, turned out to contain not only drugs but radios and other luxury goods, which the Knights' diplomatic immunity had got past Italian customs. Not long afterward, five shiploads of Argentine wheat, intended for the Knights' charitable institutions, went astray. Though the Vatican concedes that the Knights were duped by "four or five adventurers," and though the order recovered the cost of the grain, the Pope set up a tribunal...
Married. Sir Alexander Fleming, 71, Nobel Prizewinning discoverer of penicillin; and Mrs. Amalia Coutsouris, 40, a fellow microbe-hunter and Greek underground heroine; both for the second time; in London...