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...Penicillin & Sulfa. Joe's mind, however, was on more immediate matters, as he moved through the early morning ground mists from the cemetery to the orchard lot, where he poured the slop into two troughs and heard the chup-chop of the sows' jaws. Glad to get away from the smell of the hoghouse, Joe waded through high grass and weeds to what was once a brooder house. He hefted a two-bushel bag of mixed feed and poured most of it into a trough for his non-purebred calves. Stepping back, he gauged with practiced eye each...
...with flowers. As the guest of honor, a smiling widow from Britain, entered a mean little square, she looked into the eyes of a blown-up photograph of her husband bearing the inscription: "To the Holy Virgin we pray: for us, many sardines; for the wizard who gave us penicillin, glory...
...death (TIME, March 21) been mourned as intensely as in Spain, where people have come close to canonizing the dour little Scottish Protestant. Main reason: long after infectious diseases were brought under control in more advanced countries, they persisted as wholesale killers in poverty-ridden Spain-until penicillin...
Spaniards cannot tell in cold figures how much the wonder drugs have cut the death rate, because their latest statistics are five years old. But Spain now produces annually 40 million doses of penicillin of 100,000 units each; with no prescription needed, many middle-class families decide for themselves when to use it, give their own injections. Perhaps the most enthusiastic testimonials to penicillin come from the most septic sources in Spain: the third-rate bull rings. In the past, many toreros lost a leg or died from common wound infections after being gored by a bull...
Although Dr. Kolmer did not make the point, it is ironically true that modern medicine, armed with penicillin and other antibiotics, would have a better than two-to-one chance of saving a patient from the type of infection (Staphylococcus albus) that killed young Coolidge...