Word: penicillins
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Leeches at the Veins. Inside the Kremlin, working on their 73-year-old patient with all the artifices of medicine, the doctors tried penicillin, oxygen mask, glucose injections for nourishment, caffeine for stimulation. They even reached desperately backward for a remedy: leeches to suck at the old man's veins...
...physical aspect of war, they have no means of assessing the stark inner tragedy. The U.N. soldier does not know that a Korean schoolteacher's salary will buy her only 16 lbs. of uncooked rice and ten cups of coffee a month; that a Korean doctor sells penicillin on the black market because his income is less than $10 a month...
...Penicillin...
...formaldehyde-treated virus in a purified mineral oil, and injected it that way, the antibodies showed up in greater strength. (The oil probably cannot directly influence the making of antibodies, but it holds the virus material in the body longer, just as oils are used to hold penicillin in the system.) After a while, the monkeys got inoculations of live polio virus which ordinarily would have caused crippling disease or death; not one of them even got sick...
...months in the nuclear reactor at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island. It traveled across the country in a two-ton lead container. Stanford research-men still look at their dangerous captive with some awe, but they intend to put it to practical work, such as sterilizing delicate substances (e.g., penicillin) that are damaged when sterilized by heat...