Word: pus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Academic freedom, insists Hesburgh, can and should flourish at a Catholic cam pus. Restrictions may occur, he concedes; in population studies, for example, birth control cannot be approved as a solution. But there restrictions end-or should end: "In nine years, I have never said to a single professor that any book or doctrine is out of bounds. I have no wish to be a medieval...
...sick even to cry, the tiny, four-week-old infant lay limply on its bed in a British hospital Tests of blood and pus samples, drawn from an inflamed abscess on the child's right hip, produced a chilling diagnosis: Staphylococcus aureus, of the dreaded "hospital type,"* which is resistant to penicillin and most antibiotics. With little hope of success, physicians administered massive doses of penicillin and streptomycin. Neither worked, and the child hovered near death. Finally, doctors tried an experimental drug, one so new that it still had no name, bore only a laboratory code number...