Word: penicillins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Importance of germ filtration in the operating room has become more acute with the relatively greater prevalence of staphylococci that are resistant to penicillin and other antibiotics. Because of constant exposure, it is doctors and nurses who are most likely to be carriers of these potentially deadly germs even though they show no sign of illness themselves...
...with the most powerful antibiotics. They were taken to Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City. There Dr. Riley and colleagues identified the cause of the girls' illness as a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (the commonest germ in wounds and boils) that resists the killing powers of penicillin and many other drugs. Fortunately, the strain was sensitive to the antibiotic vancomycin, and the girls were soon on the mend. But where had they picked up the infection...
...walls were slimy. Most had a stale odor, and "a few were literally foul." When the bacteriologists went to work, they found that in 22% of the carafes the water contained colon bacilli, and no fewer than 69% held Staphylococcus aureus-including at least one of the deadly, penicillin-resistant strains that have caused wholesale epidemics and killed babies in some hospital nurseries (TIME, March...
...black art of propaganda-never had it so good. Larry Purdoe is editor of the Voice of Britain, his assistant is a non-U type called Herbert Wragg, and their American friend is a newspaperman named Abe Schulman ("definitely a good type"). They have the whisky, the candy, the penicillin and the supreme good luck of not being totally at the mercy of the people's police...
...Pilgrim Fathers to double the figure. When he was writing Brave New World, in 1931, world population stood at just under 2 billion. Today, "only 27 years later, there are 2,800,000,000 of us." People keep breeding, as it were, behind Huxley's back. Clean water, penicillin, DDT are also to blame, he says. Soon there will not be enough to eat, Huxley warns, and suggests that occupancy of this planet by more than 3 billion persons is dangerous and should be unlawful...