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...Russians claimed again that a Russian flew the first power-driven heavier-than-air machine 21 years before the Wright brothers got around to their 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. In recent years, official Communist publications have claimed that the incandescent lamp, the radio, the steam engine, penicillin, and many basic discoveries in theoretical sciences were Russian products. A few of these claims have shreds of truth to them; most are the wildest fantasy...
This week the Upjohn Co. proudly announced that it had something new for agriculture: an antibiotic that might save the lives of the farmer's plants, as penicillin and streptomycin have saved the lives of people...
...certain yet just why penicillin dust works on colds. But last week's Journal of the American Medical Association published a cautious and belated plug lor a treatment that has already become popular. A group of doctors who tried inhaled penicillin dust on 169 cold patients reported that it helped 80%. Often the patients' noses came unplugged and they could breathe more easily immediately after the treatment...
...Penicillin dust also worked on other respiratory troubles. In some cases painful sore throats stopped hurting half an hour after the dust hit the spot...
Doctors do not attribute penicillin's success to its effect on a cold virus. It probably affects only the bacteria that flourish in the tissues disorganized by the virus. Whatever it does, it seems to help...