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Promising Molds. Dr. Rhoads and his associates believe that no possibility, even faintly promising, should be neglected. One long shot is to look for something in the secretions of molds. One such secretion, penicillin, has a differential effect on bacteria: it kills bacteria but leaves human tissue unharmed. Molds might conceivably produce something with a differential effect on cancer cells...
...rule the world . . ." Lerner, perhaps confusing influence with power, made his own list of the 25 who "really rule the world . . . the political, intellectual, and moral rulers . . .": Stalin, Churchill, Nehru, Pope Pius, Weizmann, Mao Tse-tung, Tito; and Physicist Albert Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl Barth, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer and Reinhold Niebuhr; and, as a "moral symbol of the Western democratic creed, whom...
...Measures. Treatment No. 1 is antagonistic bacilli, taken by mouth in ginger ale or some other carbonated beverage. Once in the patient's system, the bacilli produce an "antibiotic" which kills off the typhoid germs in two weeks to a month. Treatment No. 2, a combination of penicillin, three sulfa drugs (thiazole, diazine and merazine) plus alcohol and a dye called iodophthalein, injected in the patients' muscles or veins, works faster but it made 50% of Manteno's patients violently...
...earlier than 10:00 that the Friendly Nurse barks into the snoring student's car, "Ha-ha-ha--I guess you're got the sleeping sickness." Similar interruptions follow throughout the day, invariably accompanied by aspirin, alcohol rubs, more washrags, and a little by podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 a.m. podermic needle full of penicillin. And at 9:00 p.m. the final Cheerful Nurse appears carrying a bottle of huge red Seconal pills. "Medication for sleep," she calls them...
Smith entered early this spring with a Strep throat, was issued his pajamas and water, absorbent little gray cotton slippers, and put on a three-hour penicillin schedule. His fever promptly dropped, and he, too, began to beg to get out. But Strep throats are tricky things, and Stillman care is cautions. Smith stayed in the small respiratory ward three weeks; the first week was the best. He discovered a batch of jig-saw puzzles thoughtfully placed on a shelf in the ward, and completed the lot, though all were marked with "seven damn pieces missing" or similar discouraging comments...